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As Istanbul was a commercial and cultural
center during the Roman and Byzantine empires, many buildings were adorned
with fantastic mosaics. None, however, compared with those built into the
Byzantine Imperial Palace, built by the emperor Justinian I in the 500s
and sacked by crusaders in 1206. Left to fall into ruin, the palace was
rediscovered after a fire swept through the Ishakpasa area of Sultanahmet
in 1912.
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