Ottoman sultan’s iconic portrait donated to Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality
Published 03 May,2021 via Hürriyet Daily News - A rare 16th-century portrait of Suleiman the Magnificent, the longest-reigning Ottoman sultan, has been donated to the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality by an anonymous buyer after it fetched a hefty 350,000 British pounds ($481,000) of sale price in an auction in London last month.
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