Constantinople

@Ostina1 · 3 years ago

Conquest of Istanbul: Ottoman Caliphate from the Companions

Conquest of Istanbul. Sultan Mahmud II from Sahaba. (Fatih Sultan Mehmet Han) (30 March 1432 - 3 May 1461) The seventh sultan of the Ottoman Empire. The Prophet (peace and blessings of Allaah...

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@kibria · 4 years ago

1509 Constantinople earthquake

The 1509 Constantinople earthquake occurred in the Sea of Marmara on 10 September 1509 at about 10 p.m. The earthquake had an estimated magnitude of 7.2 ± 0.3 on the surface wave magnitude scale.[2]...

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@falcon-node · 4 weeks ago

The Siege of Constantinople: When Everything Hangs by a Thread

In the year 1453, Constantinople stood as the last stronghold of what was once the towering Byzantine Empire. Surrounded by the Ottoman army, the city seemed destined to fall. The Byzantines were vast...

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@ilias · 4 years ago

Travel to the beauty of the city of Istanbul

Imagine you are sitting on the balcony of a Marmaris hotel. The unobstructed beauty of the Marmara Sea in front. If you have a cup of coffee in hand, the time will not cut you badly. Or suppose you ar...

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@BettyBoop · 4 years ago

Tomorrow we celebrate Saint Paraskevi, the patron saint of women.

Tomorrow, the Serbian Orthodox Church celebrates the day of the Venerable Mother Paraskeva - St. Petka, a saint who helped the sick and the poor. The cult of St. Paraskevi has been nurtured for centu...

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@BaldurThorLoki · 4 years ago

Heraclius

Heraclius is rarely mentioned, although he is otherwise well known to history buffs in both the West and the East as one of the most interesting emperors of the Eastern Roman Empire. It will be that...

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@Aschy · 3 years ago

Ottoman Empire 1299-1923 (Short)

Osman I, a leader of the Turkish tribes in Anatolia, found The Ottoman Empire in 1299. The first capital of the Ottoman Empire was Söğüt. Osman, I was the first person who collected taxes. He expan...

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@Mictorrani · 3 years ago

The Star-And-Crescent - A Symbol for Islam?

Today, the star-and-crescent symbol, a symbol consisting of a star and a crescent in combination, is associated with Islam. While in some circles it is a symbol of Islam, analogous to the cross of C...

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@Jisso_Kim · 4 years ago

What with Ethereum 2.0?

Istanbul upgrade will be implemented in two phases at which Part 1 will be the hard fork over the $21 billion block chain network. It will implement six backward-incompatible code changes. Of all th...

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@goga14 · 4 years ago

Istanbul

Istanbul has always been a city I want to visit. A city with three names over the centuries - Byzantium, Constantinople, Istanbul. The Slavs called it Constantinople, the gate between East and West, t...

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@apela · 4 years ago

Coffee

- According to legend, Honore de Balzac drank 50 cups of coffee a day so he could stay awake and keep writing. The same number of cups of coffee a day is attributed to the French philosopher Voltaire...

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@ajournalcollective · 4 years ago

Tuesday the 13th, a day of wariness and fear

The western world is known to fear Friday the 13th . Some culture in general associates number 13 as an unlucky number from various mythical and superstitious beliefs correlated with it. Although Fri...

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@Velimirveki97 · 4 years ago

30 Interesting facts about coffee

1. According to legend, Honore de Balzac drank 50 cups of coffee a day so he could stay awake and keep writing. The same number of cups of coffee a day is attributed to the French philosopher Voltaire...

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@Snezana28 · 3 years ago

A day of joy!

Dear virtual friends! 26.01.2021. Today is Tariq's birthday! He is my wonderful and successful student. We celebrated him with the birthday song "Happy Birthday"Tariq gave everyone a Robot made of sw...

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@Velimirveki97 · 4 years ago

What is the SOUL and lessons about the soul

Saint Maximus the Confessor (581-662) was a Christian monk and Byzantine theologian, the creator of a broad theological system that encompassed Christian thought from Origen to Pseudo-Dionysius the...

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@Mictorrani · 4 years ago

History of Coffee

(This is article no. 3 of 4 in a my series about coffee.) "No one can understand the truth until he drinks of coffee's frothy goodness." (Sheikh Abd-al-Kadir) I. Coffee, Medicine or Religious Be...

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@Mictorrani · 2 years ago

Quizzes & Puzzles 28

Some new problems with which to exercise the brain. But first a look at answers and solutions to Quizzes & Puzzles 27 . New problems below the image (cartoon). Answer to Quiz 27:1 There is an old...

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@wonderer · 3 years ago

Suffering Serbian queen

Queen Simonida was a classic pledge of piece, given to the king when she has only five years old. Simonida (1294-1345) was only five years old when her father, the Byzantine emperor Andronicus Palaeo...

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@ceky321 · 3 years ago

Count Raguzinski - The Great Serb of Great Russia

The name of Sava Vladislavić Raguzinski is mostly forgotten by the Serbian people today. Rarely has anyone heard of the existence of this man, let alone knows anything more about him. And it is a pity...

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@ceky321 · 3 years ago

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk the first Turkish president

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk was a Turkish military leader, founder and first president of the Republic of Turkey. He was born on May 19, 1881 in Thessaloniki, in a working class family. His mother was a...

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@ceky321 · 3 years ago

Battle of Nikopolje

On this day in 1396, a great battle took place near Nikopolje in present-day Bulgaria, where a united Christian army met the advancing Ottoman army. This army was led by King Sigismund, and the righ...

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@Yousaf · 4 years ago

Otoman empire.

The Ottoman Empire (/ˈɒtəmən/; Ottoman Turkish: دولت عليه عثمانيه‎ Devlet-i ʿAlīye-i ʿOsmānīye, literally "The Sublime Ottoman State"; Modern Turkish: Osmanlı İmparatorluğu or Osmanlı Devleti; French:...

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@Mictorrani · 3 years ago

Pontifex Maximus & The Imperial Purple of Rome

The Imperial Purple of Rome Purple is now made synthetically, but the original source was a gastropod, Murex brandaris, which has a shell with many spines and a gland secreting a purple dye. This was...

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@Shounenbat · 3 years ago

Historical Movie Review: Agora

(NOTE: I intended to write something for Good Friday, but this article was on the back burner, so I finished it up instead. It's an odd thing to talk about on this day, but history cannot be forgott...

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@ceky321 · 3 years ago

Mad Ottoman sultan who loved larger women

Sultan Ibrahim I (1615-1648) was not served the nickname "Crazy" on a platter - he did his best to deserve it. From 1640, when he ascended the Ottoman throne, until the moment he was sent to that worl...

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@Saha99saha · 4 years ago

Diaspora

The term "Diaspora" comes from an ancient. This Greek word meaning 'to scatter about'. The people of a diaspora scatter from their homeland to places across the globe, spreading their cultures as they...

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@CEO. · 2 years ago

Children of Chernobyl

In July 1986, something as unusual as it was frightening occurred in a certain hospital in Constantinople, Turkey, just as the woman in labor was beginning to expel the newborn and the attending phys...

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@sobujr619 · 4 years ago

Marco polo

Marco Polo (1254 – January 8–9, 1324)was a Venetian merchant,explorer, and writer who travelled through Asia along the Silk Road between 1271 and 1295. His travels are recorded in The Travels of Marco...

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@Nnita · 4 years ago

Tulip

Beautiful flower Tulips were introduced to the Western world by the Viennese ambassador to Turkey , Augier Ghislain de Busbecq , who wrote of seeing the plants in Edirne, Turkey, in 1551 and wh...

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@ceky321 · 3 years ago

Elite janissaries of the Ottoman sultan, the best Turkish servants!

The Janissaries were the sultan's elite army. At first they were gunmen under a bow and arrow, and later they were given firearms. Janissary units were made up of Christian children who were abducted...

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