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[[Image:rumelihisari.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Rumelihisari, looking out over the [[Bosphorus]].]]

The '''Rumelihisari''' is a [[fortress]] located between [[Sariyer]] and [[Bebek]] districts of [[Istanbul]]. It was built by [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman]] Sultan [[Mehmed II]], in [[1451]], before he conquered [[Constantinople]], to prevent [[Crusade]]rs coming from the [[Black Sea]]. The land that the castle was built upon was techincally [[Byzantine]] territory and when the Byzantine emperor [[Constantine XI]] sent an embassy to Mehmed to protest the sultan had the ambassadors siezed and executed. Constantine then knew the construction of the castle was the prelude to an attack on his city which followed two years later.

== See also ==
* [[Anadoluhisari]]
* [[Bosphorus]]
* [[Fall of Byzantium]]

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