Port of Antalya was 800 years ago, before the last stops of the Silk Road tourism in the service of the Han Kırkgöz

Port of Antalya was 800 years ago, before the last stops of the Silk Road tourism in the service of the Han Kırkgöz

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II of the Seljuk Empire. And was built by Bin Keykubat Kaykhusraw port of Antalya before the last stops of the Silk Road 800 years ago, the Kırkgöz Han, Han...

Values ​​that reflect the local culture for the submission of Beypazari Mansions

Values ​​that reflect the local culture for the submission of Beypazari Mansions

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Like every inch of the territory of very ancient civilizations of Anatolia Beypazari been the scene live. Although there is clear information that points to the first placement as a...

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...

name Hagia Sophia "Holy Wisdom" or "divine wisdom" in terms

name Hagia Sophia "Holy Wisdom" or "divine wisdom" in terms

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Hagia Sophia (Greek: Αγιά Σοφιά, full name: Ναός τῆς Ἁγίας τοῦ Θεοῦ Σοφίας, Latin: Sancta Sophia or Sancta Sapientia), The Byzantine Emperor Anno Domini by Justinian 532 to 537 between the old city center of Istanbul's historic peninsula, the patriarch's cathedral is a basilica built displaced, receipt of Istanbul by the Turks in 1453 turned into a mosque by Sultan Mehmet the Conqueror and today serves as a museum.

Hagia Sophia , in terms of architecture, with a basilica plan, incorporating a central plan, a domed basilica with a dome-type structure and properties of the transition and the structural system is considered to be a turning point in the history of architecture.

The building, called "Sofia" is not the word to any one name, the ancient Greek "wisdom" is the meaning of the word sophos. Therefore, "Hagia Sophia" is called "holy wisdom" or "divine wisdom" is a means, Orthodoxy, God mezhepinde 'is considered one of the three qualities.of the 6th century the famous architect of Milet and Tralles'li Isidoros Anthemius'un , directed the construction of St. Sophia's approximately 10,000 workers worked Justinian spent a great fortune, and is specified for the job. This is a very old building, used to make a feature of some of the columns, doors and stone buildings and temples, is the introduction of an older structure. Byzantine period Patriarch of Constantinople, the patriarch in the church and the Eastern Orthodox Church was the center of the Hagia Sophia, once a major natural as the "holy relics" consisted of a collection.

After the Ottoman sultan Mehmet the Conqueror converted the church into a mosque in 1453, showed great tolerance mozayiklerinden containing human figures have not been destroyed (as in not containing the left), only a thin stucco plaster covered and the centuries under the remaining mozayikler thus survived destruction of natural and artificial. A mosque converted into a museum is a part of the plaster removed and brought to light again mozayikler. In short, all the peoples of the world today to see this mozayikleri owes to a person: he, the art of showing love and respect for other religions, the sultan of the Ottoman Sultan Mehmet'tir. Today, essentially the same place in the building of the Hagia Sophia church was built for the third time that the Hagia Sophia is also known as the Third. The first two churches were destroyed during the riots. Sophia is the largest dome in the period of the central dome collapsed several times during the Byzantine period, from adding you ever collapsed because of Mimar Sinan building retaining walls.

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Suleymaniye Mosque, the most important examples of classical Ottoman architecture

Suleymaniye Mosque, the most important examples of classical Ottoman architecture

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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...

From the start of the first central heating system in the world İshakpaşa Palace

From the start of the first central heating system in the world İshakpaşa Palace

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Ishak Pasha Palace, near Mount Ararat, near Dogubeyazit Doğubeyazıt'ın 5 kilometers away from the former is built on steep rocks. 116-room palace is actually the tomb that resembles an eagle...

Museums of the world of the Museum of Anatolian Civilizations

Museums of the world of the Museum of Anatolian Civilizations

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Museum of Anatolian Civilizations, Ankara, Anatolia, is located between the archaeological museums of the world works and exhibits in a museum. Atpazari district, the Ankara citadel, the southeast coast of...

When it is not known exactly where the Citadel of Ankara

When it is not known exactly where the Citadel of Ankara

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Ankara Citadel, a fortress located in Ankara. What is not known exactly when the Romans, Byzantines, dominated by the castle was conquered by the Seljuks in 1073. Haçlılarca in 1101...

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...

The Greek Orthodox monastery and church complex in the former monastery of Sumela

The Greek Orthodox monastery and church complex in the former monastery of Sumela

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The church is believed to have been built between AD 375-395. Frequently encountered in Anatolia Cappadocia churches built in the style, even the church there is a cave-like area in...