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One of the oldest and largest covered markets in the world, the Grand Bazaar has been the commercial heart of Istanbul since the years following the Ottoman conquest, when Sultan Mehmet II ordered the building of a covered market to fund the great mosque of Hagia Sophia. Over the centuries it grew into a vast labyrinth of more than sixty streets and several thousand shops, sheltered beneath vaulted and domed roofs in the Beyazit district of the old city, and at its peak it formed the trading hub...