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Turkish people sometimes claim the Hagia Sophia was purchased by Mehmed II or a successor, rather than taken as a mere spoil of war after conquest. Is this claim based in anything historical? Who "owned" the Hagia Sophia in the 15th Century?

by /u/Rholles in /r/AskHistorians

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