Ottoman landmarks

Ottoman architecture is an architectural style that developed under the Ottoman Empire over a long period, undergoing some significant changes during its history.

It began in northwestern Anatolia around the end of the 13th century and developed from earlier Seljuk Turkish architecture, with influences from Byzantine and Iranian architecture along with other architectural traditions in the Middle East. Early Ottoman architecture experimented with multiple building types over the course of the 14th to 15th centuries, progressively evolving into the classical Ottoman style of the 16th and 17th centuries

18 landmarks in this catalogue are recorded as Ottoman, across 10 cities. The examples here run from about 1110 to 1900. 18 of them are photographed.

Most examples: Istanbul (5), Sarajevo (2), Skopje (2), Tel Aviv (2), Tirana (2), Damascus (1)

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The description above is from the English Wikipedia article on Ottoman architecture. The style attributed to each landmark comes from Wikidata, not from us — a building can honestly carry two, and several here do.