Great Fire of 1660

When

1660

Kind

Fire

Coordinates

41.01° N, 28.95° E

Description

Fire in Constantinople in 1660

Date from

year in its Wikidata description

Placed at the town its description names, Constantinople.

Fire in Istanbul in 1660

Two-thirds of Constantinople was destroyed in the Great Fire of 1660. The chronicler Abdi Paşa estimated that the fire destroyed 280,000 houses and burned for approximately forty-nine hours.

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