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| The Hagia Sophia (Greek for "church of divine wisdom"), built in 537 by Byzantine emperor Justinian, reigning as the greatest church in Christendom until the Ottoman conquest of the city in 1453: sultan Mehmet the Conqueror had it converted into a mosque, and Atatürk declared it a museum in 1935. |
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