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Ziraat Bank Building in Ankara

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Ziraat Bank Building at Ankara, originally uploaded by voyageAnatolia.

The building was designed by the Istanbulite Levantine Italian architect Giulio Mongeri in 1929, who also designed many other important buildings in Istanbul and Ankara; such as St. Antoine's Church (1906-12), Maçka Palas in Nişantaşı and the Neo-Byzantine style Karaköy Palas bank building in Karaköy (Galata), Istanbul; Ulus branch of the Ottoman Bank (1926), the Inhisarlar (Monopolies) Headquarters (1928), first headquarters of Türkiye İş Bankası (1929) in Ankara.

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