(1490-1588), who designed Istanbul's Suleymaniye Mosque, still for me the city's crowning triumph.Like the Suleymaniye, Iskele was constructed 100 years after the fall of Constantinople and shows how wealthy this city grew under Ottoman rule.Nevertheless, the Asian side remained under-developed...
States. After comparing the volumes of traffic by which each aggrandizes the other, we should find at least a certain residuum—the aggregate contributed by all the other centres within the sphere to Chicago. That this is so now, is simply matter-of-fact—as much so as is the balance of...
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Florence Nightingale was born on May 12th, 1820, and served6a trainer of nurses during the Crimean War. During the War, she7(manage) to care for wounded soldiers at Constantinople. Her contributions gave nursing a favorable reputation. She became a symbol of Victorian culture,8(especial) as ...
hadbeenentertainedbytheSultanatConstantinople.ThegreatLyc6eofGalataSeraihadbeenopened,withastafffurnishedbytheEmperorbutsupportedbytheSultan,tocompetewithRobertCollege;andDr.Hamlinhadfoundallthisinfluencearrayedagainsthimwhenhewasseek-ingpermissiontobuildatHissar.Allthiswaschangedbythewarandthefalloftheempire.Itwas...
For children, they served as a lantern in the dark or as a box for presents collected in return for singing carols. “But in other parts of the country, children held other symbolic objects, such as miniature models of the Saint Sophia Church in Constantinople (Istanbul),” said Loukatos....
age. “We address a question that has been a mystery for more than 1400 years: who were the Avar elites, mysterious founders of an empire that almost crushed Constantinople and for more than 200 years ruled the lands of modern-day Hungary, Romania, Slovakia, Austria, Croatia, and Serbia?
(Branagh, inevitably) departs Jerusalem after performing a swift and nifty piece of deduction that defuses a nascent religious riot. Travelling by boat to Constantinople (or Istanbul; either way it’s a Turkish delight on a moonlit night), Poirot encounters the keen and lovely governess Miss ...
by an epochal event, 428 AD provides a truly fresh look at a civilization in the midst of enormous change--as Christianity takes hold in rural areas across the empire, as western Roman provinces fall away from those in the Byzantine east, and as power shifts from Rome to Constantinople. ...