of the most famous symbols and landmarks of Istanbul, is the Uskudar region, 150 to 200 meters from the Salgak district of the Asian section of Istanbul. The construction date of the tower is not entirely known, but the style of the building dates back to the date 341 BC. Why was the girl's tower called this name? The name of the tower in ancient times was "Damalis and Lindros" and the name of Damalis dates back to the name of the wife of the king of Athens, who was buried on this beach and called the tower by its name. The tower was called in the Byzantine era "Arkla", which meant the small castle. After the opening of Istanbul, the old tower was demolished and a new wooden tower was erected, which was exposed to fire in 1719 and turned into ashes. In 1725, the head of the builders Ibrahim Pasha Al-Nouhahri re-created the stone and the upper section was changed. A glass dome with a painted dome was placed above it. The famous calligrapher Efendi placed a ketubbah on the marble above the door of the tower containing the seal of Sultan Mahmoud II. In 1857, the lighthouse was restored. In 1920, the light bulb was equipped with an automatic lighting system. The tower has been used for several historical purposes including: • Collection of taxes from commercial vessels. • Beacon for defense. • Hospital in 1830 for cholera patients. • Radio station. The tower was used in the Republican era as a lighthouse for a period and was linked in 1964 to the Ministry of Defense and in 1982 to the Maritime Business Foundation. Today, it is invested as a restaurant by a private company that has developed and processed it. Tales and legends about naming the tower girl by this name The first story One of the most famous stories tells that he was built on the rocky island at the entrance to the Bosphorus by order of a king who lived in BC. The prophecies told him that his only daughter would die of a snakebite and protect his daughter from any possible danger of being isolated on the island at sea and build a fortress to protect her. And lived there until the disease raged and sat down and confused by the wise, without finding a cure even suggested by one of the wise that the grapes will help her healing The snake came with a basket of grapes and wrote the end of the girl as prophesied prophecies and died Bulldgth, and remained the tower tells the story of poor girl who lived in the show Strait. Another story says that the Sultan saw a nightmare that his daughter was dying at the birth of Afghi on her birthday. The commentators interpreted the vision of the Sultan that his daughter would die on her 18th birthday as a snakebite and that the Sultan's love for his daughter built her a tower in the sea away from the land to protect her from the bite of the snake. On her birthday, a gift of the Sultan's daughter came in a fruit basket with a snake in it. The girl stabbed the snake and died in the tower on the day of her 18th birthday. And so called the tower by this name tower girl. The second story According to this legend, it is said that there was a young man named Lindsar who loved a nun of Aphrotite named Hero who lived in the tower. Because love was forbidden to Hiro being a nun was the young Linders swim every night to the tower in order to meet with Hero and Hiro set fire to him in order to indicate the tower. On a stormy night, the fire that Hiro ignites is extinguished and the young man loses his way and goes into the sea. Vimut and Hierro, who hears the news of the death of Lindros, can not live after that, and their story of love in the city is famous. The third story It is said that the fighter was a Gazan who loved the daughter of Takfur, who refused to give his daughter to him and therefore put his daughter in the tower. After that, Ghazi attacks the tower and kidnaps the girl, riding immunity and escaping away from the area of Oskodar. He says that "the one who got the horse surpassed the Oskodar" originates from here and that is why people called the tower the name of the girl's tower.
