The fireboxes also changed proportions, becoming narrower with time. If we exclude these exceptional spaces, the entire construction was timber-framed with infill materials depending on region and period. The pre-Islamic periods of Turkish culture were emphasized; based on the available data the presence of a cultural continuity from Middle Asia until the present was underlined. Despite the financial insufficiency of the Ottomans, Celal Esad thought that municipal project could also continue. The most important of these reform movements also affected the city.
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