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Rumeli Fortress
Built in first half of the 15th century, this is the large medieval castle under the Second Bosphorus Bridge.
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Its former name Boğazkesen (Turkish)/Laimokopia (Greek) means both "strait-blocker" and "throat-cutter" in both languages and denotes the reason of its building—to shut the supply routes from the Black Sea in the north into the slowly falling apart Byzantine Empire through the Bosphorus.
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