![]() ![]() “That city, placed at the junction of two seas and two continents, seemed like a diamond set between two sapphires and two emeralds, to form the most precious stone in a ring of universal empire. The series begins with an excerpt from Osman Gazi’s "Dream of Constantinople" (1280), a precursory dream with a metaphor of a tree. Netflix recently released a documentary series under the main heading of “Rise of Empires.” The first season of the highly anticipated series, written and directed by Emre Şahin, features the conquest of Istanbul, which points to the Ottoman state’s transition to an empire and the life of Sultan Mehmed II, aka Mehmed the Conqueror. ![]()
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