Seven hills of Istanbul

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Istanbul is known as the City on the Seven Hills (Turkish: Yedi tepeli şehir). The city has inherited this denomination from Byzantine Constantinople which – consciously following ^{[citation needed]} the model of Rome – was built on seven hills too.