The _________ Sarayi or “Palace of the Gun Gate,” begun in 1459, incorporated a royal residence, an imperial administrative school for the training of bureaucrats, barracks for the troops of Janissaries, an armory and a hospital, and it became an object of both fear and fascination for the Sultan’s subjects.
a. Topkapï
b. Aynalikavak
c. Dolmabahçe
d. Maslak
a. Topkapï
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A. the Mohican Indians. B. Ichabod Crane and Rip Van Winkle. C. Philadelphia society. D. the American Revolution. E. George Washington.