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1707 in architecture
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The year 1707 in architecture involved some significant events.
Buildings
- In IstanbulIstanbulIstanbul , historically known as Byzantium and Constantinople , is the largest city of Turkey. Istanbul metropolitan province had 13.26 million people living in it as of December, 2010, which is 18% of Turkey's population and the 3rd largest metropolitan area in Europe after London and...
, the Yeni Valide MosqueYeni Valide MosqueThe Yeni Valide Mosque is an Ottoman mosque in the Üsküdar district of Istanbul, Turkey. It was built between the 1708 and 1710 on the iskele road by Emetullah Râbi'a Gülnûş Sultan, mother of Sultan Ahmed III. The main part of the building is square in shape and covered with a flattened main dome...
is begun (completed in 17101710 in architectureThe year 1710 in architecture involved some significant events.-Buildings:* St Paul's Cathedral in London, designed by Christopher Wren is completed.-Deaths:*Sir William Bruce *Robert Mylne The year 1710 in architecture involved some significant events.-Buildings:* St Paul's Cathedral in London,...
). - In Nagasaki (JapanJapanJapan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
), the Hirado CastleHirado Castlewas the seat of the Matsuura clan, the daimyo of Hirado Domain, of Hizen province, Kyūshū. It is located in present-day Hirado city Nagasaki prefecture, Japan...
is built by Shizunobu Matsuura, the 29th lord of the MatsuuraMatsuuraMatsuura is a Japanese name, and can refer to:Companies:*Matsuura Machinery, an international heavy machinery manufacturing company in Fukui, Fukui Prefecture, Japan*Matsuura Railway, a railway company in Nagasaki and Saga Prefecture in Japan...
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