Dolmabahçe Palace

The Dolmabahçe Palace (Turkish: Dolmabahçe Sarayı) in Istanbul, located at the European side of the Bosporus, served as the main administrative center of the Ottoman Empire from 1853 to 1922. It was built between the years 1843 and 1856 under the order of the Empire's 31st sultan, Sultan Abdülmecid , at a cost of five million Ottoman gold pounds, the equivalent of 35 tons of gold.