Rumeli Fortress

Rumeli Fortress
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Rumeli Fortress

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Mehmed II built it in about five months of 1452 at the narrowest point of the Bosphorus, to cut Constantinople off before the siege. Its three main towers and walls are now an open-air museum, with Ottoman cannons on show.