"Private houses were built as casually as Muslim tombstones were scattered in the graveyards. In some districts the streets were so crooked and narrow, without regularity or order, that houses on either side almost touched each other.
Constantinople did not possess the officially planned streets which had already appeared in Rome, Florence and Venice and would be built in Paris after 1600.
The confusion was accentuated by the presence of five separate hills south of the Golden Horn, and the great hill of Galata on the other side.
In this chaotic wooden city the mosque complexes were the only element of urban order."

Phillip Mansel

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