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(Hürriyet Newspaper, 7 May 2021)
evliya çelebi click here for background on this
17th century Turkish traveler.
slavery in istanbul click here for background.
The shipyard dungeon, hard by the shipyard wall in Istanbul.
Archeological research has been conducted in a 280,000 square meter
area in the Kulaksız neighborhood of Kasımpaşa, Istanbul, within the
scope of the Tersane (shipyard) Istanbul Project. The appearance of
stones set in a vault style on the side of the shipyard wall between
Kasımpaşa and Kulaksız caught the attention of researchers. The
heavy layer of soil and trees in the area were excavated and a building
with a vaulted roof was revealed.
The researchers found a reference to the building in the 17th century
travel log of Evliya Çelebi as the Sanbola (Sao Paulo) Dungeon,
otherwise known as the dungeon of Tersane-i Amire (Ottoman Imperial
Shipyard). Other historical documents identify the building at "Kara
Kule" (black tower), the name the populace gave it because of its large
dimensions.
In 1591 Rudolf II, the emperor of the Holy Roman Empire of the German
Nation, sent Friedrich Seidel as part of a delegation to the Ottoman
Empire. Seidel was imprisoned in this dungeon and later wrote a book
about his time in a book entitled "In the Sultan's Dungeon".
Urban planner and architect Selahattin Tüysüz explained that "the history
of the Golden Horn shipyard goes back to Byzantine times. The places
where boats were repaired were known as "Haliç'in Gözleri"(the Golden
Horn's cells), behind which was the dungeon's location. We see the
dungeon on maps drawn in the 1600s. The entirety of the ruins in this
area need to be extracted and exhibited in an open-air museum."
Researchers think that regular prisoners, along with POWs, were held in
the dungeon, which is adjacent to the shipyard built in the time of
Sultan Mehmed the Conqueror. The discovery has excited local residents
of Kulaksız like Ahmet Şanlı, who said "I've been living in this
neighborhood for 40 years. Previously, the site of historic works was on
the hill, where there was a big tree. Workers removed the tree and then
its roots and this dungeon appeared It is very likely that there are more
ruins around here."
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