Tag: Roman History

   Long before the Hurrem Sultan Hamam came into existence, the same grounds were occupied by a much larger Roman bathhouse called Zeuxippus. Sinan, the Architect, and Sultan Suleiman had this distinctive way of expressing imperial urbanism with constant analepsis of the collective consciousness derived from the antiquity to the Eastern Roman era- that is why the Hurrem Sultan Hamam is located on top of the ruins of an old Roman bath house.