Upon Qutb’s death, Iltutmish enlisted the help of the Turkish nobility and became the sultan himself. As a ruler, Iltutmish made history by becoming the first sultan to choose a woman as his royal successor when he named his young daughter Razia as his obvious heir. Razia was a strong...
It covered parts of modern-day Kuwait, Iraq, eastern Syria, southeastern Turkey, and regions along the Iran–Iraq and Turkish–Syrian borders. Mesopotamia has been ruled by many different people from the Sumerians … Read more >>Top 10 Ancient Mesopotamian Gods The people of Mesopotamia were ...
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stone, which I won’t mention here for privacy reasons. The “-akis” suffix was added later on, which means “small”, changing the name meaning to pebble. While that’s a point of pride during modern times, that was added to Cretan surnames during the Turkish occupation to demean ...
They include ancient Chinese, Turkish and Thai sculptures, modern sculptures and a medieval fresco. These examples illustrate the chemical concept of chirality, the periodic table of the elements and molecular systems such as buckminsterfullerene, nanotubes and quasicrystals. Add to bibliography APA, ...
In the 5th century C.E. the temple was converted into a Christian basilica. Centuries later, it was destroyed by the Turkish invaders for building materials. Today, on the edge of the neighbourhood of Pangrati, the temple remains are scant and in sad disrepair, but they still have an echo...
A periodical distribution is also made to the Sclavonian villagers of the Austrian and Turkish provinces by the elders of their body, but then it is a distribution once for all of the total produce of the year. In the Russian villages, however, the substance of the property ceases to be...
After the foundation of the House of Wisdom (in Arabic Bayt Al Hikma) in Baghdad, scholars from different parts of the world were tasked to collect and translate all of the classical knowledge of the day into Arabic and then Persian and Turkish. Although the Islamic Golden Age began in ...
The map belonged to a 16th-century Turkish admiral named Piri Reis. It appears to depict the coast of Antarctica, without its ice cap, before the widely accepted date of the land mass's discovery. How could ancient cartographers have created this map without assistance from advanced ...
Admission to the site is 20 euros or 60 Turkish lira. The monastery is open from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. between June and September; 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. between October and May. A short film about the renovation is screened in one of the old monk’s cells. Expect to spend o...