The story of Ottoman palace diamond garbage spoonbill

The story of Ottoman palace diamond garbage spoonbill

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86 carat diamond and a double row around the spoonbill is adorned with 49 diamonds and one diamond in the world, are among 22 known. Exhibited in the Topkapi Palace Museum.

Why the Topkapi museum's famous diamond "spoonbill's apple" is said to have about the various stories, of them what is right, the diamond is oval in section, and thus benzemesindendir spoon. A diamond in the Ottoman Palace of information about how to enter, not more than hearsay.

According to legend, a French officer named Pigot in 1774, France will take you buying this diamond in the Maharajah of India's Madaras. Up for sale again after a time of Napoleon's mother buys diamonds extracted from his chest and takes a long time. However, when Napoleon was sent into exile, in order to save her son, forced to auction off her mother's apple extracts. At that time, a man in France Tepedelenli Ali Pasha, the pasha diamond is paying on behalf of 150 thousand gold buys and makes the Pasha.

Sultan II. Mahmud II, Tepedelenli Ali Pasha, had rebelled against the state killed in the grounds, the Pasha of the Ottoman treasury assets will be confiscated and sent to hell there would not be hurt. Thus, Napoleon's mother purchased "Spoonbill Diamond" will be entered into the treasury.

According to another rumor circulating in the dump in 1699 in Istanbul Eğrikapı ragamuffin team is here that the name of a diamond. Spoonbill takes, this piece akçaya a jeweler sells 10. Jewelers stone shows one of his friends, was understood to be hush-money like a precious diamond. A fight breaks out between them. The issue is akseder Kuyumcubaşıya. Gets into the hands of stone with a sac kavgacıların Kuyumcubaşı fund. But this time the grand vizier, the event will hear Köprülüzade Fazil Ahmed Pasha, preparing to buy the stone for himself, the Sultan akseder issue. IV. Mehmet (Mehmet Orion) with a diamond in a Line Imperial Palace and the Palace elmastraşına is brought over from imperial military. Occurred in the 86-carat precious stone işlenince Eğrikapı dump out a diamond. Kuyumcubaşıya Kapıcıbaşılık tip a bag of rank shall be bestowed.

Encompasses two rows of 49 diamonds around the diamond spoonbill. This form of diamond, the stars shine bright in the middle of a full moon illuminates the sky looks like.

The mass of 1 cm 3 3.5 grams, or 17.5 karattır diamond. Spoonbill's apple size is 86/17.5 = 4.91 cm3.

Iran today is still among the Other of the famous diamonds in the Derya-yi Nur diamond (which is now the world's largest diamonds and 182 carats in size) and is now in the hands of the British royal family and the new sector is now becoming the world's largest diamond in Iran in ancient times, royal, who had lost his nickname The 105-carat diamond belonging to the family include the Kuh-i Nur.

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Regarded as a work of Mimar Sinan's Suleymaniye Mosque, the transfer of a journeyman

Regarded as a work of Mimar Sinan's Suleymaniye Mosque, the transfer of a journeyman

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Suleymaniye Mosque is one of the most important examples of classical Ottoman architecture. The construction of more than a hundred earthquakes take place in Istanbul to this day, although the walls of the mosque there is no crack in the slightest. 53 m. The dome of the mosque built on four pillars in height and 27.5 m in diameter. This is the main canopy, the Haghia Sophia, as evidenced by the two half-domes are supported. Drum of the dome has 32 windows. There are four corner of the courtyard of a mosque minaret. This is adjacent to the mosque minarets with three balconies and two of 76 m. height, the mosque's courtyard, where the northern corner of the entrance façade of the wall in the corner of soncemaat other two balconies and two minarets is 56 m high.

Mosque, built in accordance with the air flow in the clean up job of edilmiştir.Yani mosque lamp, an oil-lamps of the tasks have to create an air flow that provides a single point, the collection has been built. Room on the main entrance door of the mosque, the works were collected and the ink used in the construction works.

Supported the main support pillars and domes

Portico surrounded the mosque's courtyard, a fountain in the middle of 28 are rectangular in shape. In the southern side of the mosque where the Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent and his wife Hurrem a ready available. The dome of the tomb of Suleyman the stars to give the image of armed sky, from the inside, metallic plates located between the diamonds (diamonds) are decorated.

To decorate the mosque has a simple structure. Wall of the mihrab is decorated with stained glass windows. Windows on either side of the mihrab, tile medallions in the Surah al-Fatah, the main dome of the mosque is located in the middle of writing the Qur'an. Calligrapher Hasan Çelebi mosque.

There are four minarets of the Suleymaniye Mosque. This is because the fourth sultan Suleiman the Magnificent in Istanbul after the conquest, the tenth sultan of the Ottoman Empire, this is an indication that the four minaredeki on şerefininde.

Fatih complex of the Suleymaniye mosque complex in the second largest after the Ottoman complexes külliyesidir. Peninsula in the complex are the Golden Horn in Istanbul, Marmara, Topkapi Palace and was built on the highest hill in the middle of the Bosphorus. Mosques, madrassas, hospital, Darülhadis, fountain, darülkurra, DARUZZIYAFE, hospices, baths, guest rooms on the library, and shops in the outer courtyard of the tomb of Sinan the Architect of the kulliye humble in the face of the walls of the small building. Smokers Market, which surrounds the two madrasas, on the back on the road are two small houses.

"Tiryakiler Market square, bearing the name of a long thin horizontal one-story front-madrasahs, each with a window, the inner chambers of the dome alatında charitable establishment, settled for less in an ascetic attitude of the facade, the architect of Sultan Külliyesi'ndeki madrasa layout reminds decorative wall windows and dome arrays,"

Anakubbenin belt, the belt by Sinan kübra, (power belt) has been called. The courtyard platform, the Golden Horn side of the road yüksektedir.

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