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On a tiny islet just off the Asian shore at Uskudar, where the Bosphorus opens into the Sea of Marmara, the Maiden's Tower has stood guard over the waters of Istanbul for centuries and become one of the most romantic images of the city. A structure has occupied the rock since antiquity, when the Athenians and later the Byzantines used the spot to control the strait and levy tolls on passing ships, and the present tower, much rebuilt over the years, dates in its essentials from the Ottoman period...