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2000–2012 Forest Gain and Loss
Global Forest ChangePublished by Hansen, Potapov, Moore, Hancher et al.Mavi Boncuk | Results from time-series analysis of 654,178 Landsat images in characterizing forest extent and change,...
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Le Petit Prince | " un dictateur turc "
Mavi Boncuk | Diktatör= dediği dedik...J'ai de sérieuses raisons de croire que la planète d?où venait le petit prince est l?astéroïde B 612. Cet astéroïde n?a été aperçu qu?une fois au télescope, en...
View ArticleMusic of Emre Araci
Mavi Boncuk |War and Peace: Crimea 1853-56Performed by the London Academy of Ottoman Court Music, directed by Emre Araci[1] and produced by Ates Orga (Kalan Records).European Music at the Ottoman...
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Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor of Istanbul
Elsie May and Gilbert H. Grosvenor, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing front holding their son, Melville Bell.[1] Forms part of: Gilbert H. Grosvenor Collection of Photographs of the...
View ArticleWord Origin | Diaspora
Mavi Boncuk | diaspora (n.) 1876, from Gk. diaspora "dispersion," from diaspeirein "to scatter about, disperse," from dia- "about, across" (see dia-) + speirein "to scatter" (see sprout). The Greek...
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Mavi Boncuk |The man behind this treasure trove is Nick Danforth a doctoral candidate in Turkish history at Georgetown University. He writes about Middle Eastern history, politics, and maps at he...
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Kadikoy's Raki | Elif and Ağa
Mavi Boncuk | Elif and Ağa raki was manufactured by Constantin Georgiadis in Kadıköy Söğütlüçeşme no.20. Elif rakı was a “Düziko” [1]whereas Ağa Rakısı contained anise/ anason The art of distillation...
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USS Olympia and White Army
USS Olympia[1] at the Georgian city of Batumi, on the Black Sea coast. Most white émigrés left Russia from 1917 to 1920 (estimates vary between 900,000 and 2 million), although some managed to leave...
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F. Huber maps (1887-1895)
Pictured 1895 Galata Quay[1] Huber map.Mavi Boncuk | Between the years 1887-1891 F. Huber prepared 1/1.000 scale Galata, Taksim and Pangaltı maps. 1890 map of Galata and Pera region drawn by R....
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1912 | Hennebique System for Deutsche Orient Bank
Mavi Boncuk |Deutsche Orient Bank (DOB), Eminonu, Constantinople (İstanbul) (1912). The whole building was made of reinforced concrete and the walls were covered with marble slabs on the ground floor...
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1845 | Map of the Ottoman Empire
Mavi Boncuk | General view of the Noël & Vivien map of the Ottoman Empire, 1845 (revised version)39"x27" printable version in PDFTitle: Map of the Ottoman Empire and its domains in Europe, Asia and...
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1950 | Sokoni Vakum Oyl Kompani Kadikoy
Mobil, previously known as the Socony-Vacuum Oil Company, was a major American oil company which merged with Exxon in 1999 to form ExxonMobil. After WW1, their shares of the „Turkish Petroleum Company“...
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Harty Stores
Groceries Economic Cooperative Society, Ltd. Galata. Harty's Stores, Importers, 27 Tepe Bachi, Pera. Mavi Boncuk |Fred Louis Harty was the owner of a Harty Stores, a specialty food store that provided...
View ArticleWord Origin | Hanut, çarşı, mağaza, dükkân, arasta
Mavi Boncuk |Hanut:First recorded in 1680 Franciscus Meninski, Thesaurus Linguarum Orientalium [1680],facsimile Simurg 2000. Hulki Aktunç, Büyük Argo Sözlüğü [1990], Afa Y. 1990.χanūt/χanūd dükkân,...
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Edoardo De Nari (1874-1954)
Edoardo De Nari, one of the Italian architects working in İstanbul in the final days of the Ottoman era and the first twenty-five years of the Republic, is a forgotten player of this transition period...
View ArticleWord Origin | Cezve, Ibrik
Mavi Boncuk | ibrik:from Arabic ibrīḳ/ewer إبريق sürahi/water carafe ~ old Persian *ābrīk "su döken" āb su/water + rēχtan akıtmak, dökmek/pour stem of verb ریختن (rikhtan, “to pour”) modern Persian...
View ArticlePoetry | Sait Sitki Taranci's Abbas
Another Mavi Boncuk translation.Mavi Boncuk |December 2012 translation by MAMHaydi Abbas, vakit tamam;Akşam diyordun işte oldu akşam.Kur bakalım çilingir soframızı;Dinsin artık bu kalp ağrısı.Şu ağacın...
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Toponymical Changes in the Eastern Provinces
Mavi Boncuk | Source The Making of Modern Turkey: Nation and State in Eastern Anatolia, 1913-1950 By Ugur Ümit Üngör Chart from Şerafettin Zeyrek Turkiye'de Halkevleri ve Halkodalari 2006
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From Naum Theatre to Flower Passage
1200 seat Naum Theatre.Mavi Boncuk |The land of the Flower Passage was originally occupied by the famous Naum Theatre. Mihail Naum, the owner and administrator of the Naum Theatre, bought the building...
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Profile | Joseph Niego (1863–1945)
Mavi Boncuk | Joseph Niego (1863–1945) also known as Yosef Niego was born in Andrinople/Edirne, Turkey into a rabbinical Behmoiras family though he did not embrace a rabbinical career.Joseph Niego was...
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