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Encyclopedia > Privy chamber

The Privy Chamber is part of the Topkapi Palace, Istanbul, where the Sultans have used as office and also kept the Sacred Trusts. The Tower of Justice, Topkapi Palace Topkapı Palace (Topkapı Sarayı in Turkish, literally the Cannongate Palace - named after a nearby gate), located in Istanbul (Constantinople), was the administrative center of the Ottoman Empire from 1465 to 1853. ... Satellite image of Istanbul and the Bosphorus Istanbul (Turkish: İstanbul) is the largest city in Turkey, and arguably the most important. ...


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Imbedded in the chamber walls are the remnants of indentation in the stone for large candles or torches.
On the east side of the wall was a fireplace and cupboard recesses, a doorway that led to a latrine on the west tower, and a doorway to a small vaulted chamber.
On the first floor there also were four chambers but they did not appear to be as lavish as the upper floor giving speculation that those occupying the second floor would have been more important or of higher rank.
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