Talk:Dolmabahçe Palace

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Ataturk's Death
Mustafa Kemal Ataturk was in Dolmabahce Palace in his last days and his death. The room he died in has a memorial section and its a place of major importance in his death anniversaries. I think thisn should be mentioned in the artickle. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 86.108.203.68 (talk • contribs).


 * It's in the article now. Atilim Gunes Baydin 16:02, 15 February 2007 (UTC)

Plan
It would be great if someone could add a plan to this article. Seaaron 15:53, 10 August 2007 (UTC)

Amount of gold used on ceilings
I am not in a position to change it as I don't know what the source is, but the number seems overly inflated. At generally accepted weight of gold leaf, one square meter is 2 grams. Fourteen tons would cover area of 7 square kilometers. I know the palace is large, I've had an opportunity to see it's glory, but it seems a bit too much considering that not all ceilings are gilded. Vshioshvili (talk) 15:26, 13 August 2008 (UTC)

Why have you changed "History" section? Or did you think that it is not wrong? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Mustafa Bakacak (talk • contribs) 17:53, 21 August 2011 (UTC)

I wait answer from everyone.--Mustafa Bakacak (talk) 20:36, 21 August 2011 (UTC)

I also translate in case the article is a featured article. --Mustafa Bakacak (talk) 20:46, 21 August 2011 (UTC)

Area of ceilings is stated at 10,000 sq metres gilded. 1 troy ounce of gold leaf will cover about 30 sq.m. (very conservatively). Heavy gold leaf will still cover 10 sq m per oz troy. Each ton has about 32,500 oz. troy and would thus cover about 1 million sq. m.. What is far more likely is that the cost of the gold leaf and all the gilding work had a total value of 14 tons of gold. Even then, it is difficult to see how it could cost that much unless defense contractors bid on the job. :) Collect (talk) 22:31, 5 May 2016 (UTC)


 * The reference says: "14 tonnes of gold was used only to adorn the interior ceiling of the palace." Perhaps, they mean not only gilding? Could there be some pieces made completely of gold? BTW, where did you find this number, 10000m2? And in general, I can imagine, the contractors were very "generous" in their material calculations. ;) --Off-shell (talk) 05:57, 6 May 2016 (UTC)


 * Easy number to check - covers a lot of sources.  Gilding is thicker, but many of the ceilings are mainly covered with paintings.  Collect (talk) 13:45, 6 May 2016 (UTC)

Largest palace in Turkey?
The statement "Dolmabahçe is the largest palace in Turkey." opening the Design and layout section is at least questionable. The following sentence quotes a surface of 45,000 m2. In the same city of Istanbul the Topkapı Palace according the the corresponding wikipedia page has a size 	592,600 to 700,000 m2, many times larger. So Dolmabahçe is at least second in size, but other palaces of larger size may be sitting around Turkey as well, without us knowing.

So, I'll delete that "largest palace" sentence in a a few days unless someone comes up with a clear explanation for it. Nicola.Manini (talk) 11:56, 22 January 2016 (UTC)


 * It looks like the numbers quoted for Topkapı include the courtyards, while its buildings are much smaller. In contrast, Dolmabahçe is a monoblock building. It needs to be checked carefully in sources what is really meant by these numbers before deleting this statement. --Off-shell (talk) 22:02, 22 January 2016 (UTC)

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