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Mimar Koca Sinan (Great Architect Sinan)
b. Anatolia, 1489;
d. Istanbul, 1588.
Sinan - The greatest of all Ottoman famous architects, whose architectural career spanned fifty years and the reigns of Suleyman the Magnificent and Selim II. His great mosques are the archetypal image of Turkish Ottoman architecture. Sinan was born of Greek Christian parents. In 1512 he [...]