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Yıldız Clock Tower
Yıldız Clock Tower (Turkish: Yıldız Saat Kulesi), is a clock tower situated in the garden of the Yıldız Hamidiye Mosque, in Yıldız neighborhood of Beşiktaş district in İstanbul, Turkey at the European side of Bosphorus. It was ordered by the Ottoman sultan Abdul Hamid II (1842-1918) in 1889, and the construction completed in 1890.
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