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Profile | Sir Gerard Clauson (1891-1974)
PRIVATE PAPERS OF SIR GERARD CLAUSON KCMG OBE is at Imperial War Museum. Ms diary (88pp), notebooks, field message book and a set of Battalion orders covering his training in the United Kingdom as a...
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Sartak Han
Alexander Nevsky & Sartaq KhanMavi Boncuk | Sartaq (or Sartak, Sartach, Mongolian: Сартаг, Tatar: Сартак) Khan (died 1256) was the son of Batu Khan and Regent Dowager Khatun Boraqcin of Alchi...
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Selected Abstracts | Myths and Narratives of Habsburg and Ottoman...
Mavi Boncuk | Myths and Narratives of Habsburg and Ottoman Multinationalism 1848–19181–3 November 2018, CopenhagenAyşe ÖzilNon-Muslims in Ottoman Constitutive Legislation: Islahat Edict (1856) and the...
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Kurds in Four Maps
Mavi Boncuk | (Click image to see full size)Kurdish (Kurdî, کوردی) is a continuum of Northwestern Iranian languages spoken by the Kurds in Western Asia. Kurdish forms three dialect groups known as...
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Word Origin | Asker, Subay, Nefer, İnzibat, Kullukçu
Mavi Boncuk |Asker: soldier EN[1] fromAR ˁaskar عسكر ordu( army EN[2] military EN[3]Farsi laşkar لشكر ordu → leşkerOldest Source: "ordu" [ Dede Korkut Kitabı (c. 1400): Tekür daχı askerini cem edüp...
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Word Origin REDUX | Hançer, Bıçak, Kama, Falçata, Çakı, Orak, Ustura, Kılıç,...
Bursa Knife from "Bought, Borrowed & Stolen: Recipes and Knives from a Travelling Chef"Conran Octopus, 2011 (paperback June 2013) Allegra McEvedy MBE. Chef, writer & broadcaster Described by...
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Recommended | The Gunnar Jarring Central Eurasia Collection
Mavi Boncuk |The Gunnar Jarring Central Eurasia Collection consists of publications from the private library of late Ambassador Gunnar Jarring[1] (1907–2002). It was formerly owned by the Royal Swedish...
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Word Origin REDUX | Takunya , Takoz, Nalın, Nal, Nalça, Paten, Patika,...
Word Origin | Takunya , Takoz, Nalın, Nal, Nalça, Paten, Patika, Sandal, Galoş,Tokyo (NEW) Patik, İskarpin, Çizme, ÇarıkMavi Boncuk |Le kabkab, Takunya.Chopines are platform shoes that were worn by...
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Jesuit Missions to the Ottoman Empire
Image from 'The Life of St Ignatius Loyola' by Peter Paul Rubens To educate the youth of Europe? To fight the spread of Protestantism? While many people would guess that one or both of these ambitions...
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Armenian Linguists of Turkish Language
Mavi Boncuk | Armenians have lived together with Turks for centuries. As a result of this coexistence, socio-cultural relations have developed between the Armenians and Turks in the historical process....
View ArticleRecommended | Ottoman - Turkish Dictionaries and Sources
Mavi Boncuk |SOURCEDictionary• OsmanlıcaTürkçe: Ottoman-Modern Turkish dictionary (Latin characters)• EbruliSözlük: Ottoman-Modern Turkish dictionary (Latin characters)• A lexicon, English and Turkish...
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Maps | 1493 Constantinople
Hartmann Schedel | Coloured woodcut town view of Constantinople, Istanbul. Printed in Nuremberg by Anton Koberger in 1493.The incunable was issued 1493 in Latin, followed by the German edition in the...
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Completion of Cihannüma Restoration
UPDATETurkish Cultural Foundation and Chester Beatty Library Conserve One of the Earliest Turkish Printed BooksTurkish Cultural Foundation (TCF) is delighted to announce the completion of a project...
View ArticleWord Origin | Savaş , Harp, Muharebe
Mavi Boncuk |Savaş: war EN[1] fromTR sav söz +Aş → savOldest source: savaş "(sözlü) tartışma, atışma" [ ed. Borovkov, Orta Asya'da Bulunmuş Kuran Tefsirinin... (1300 yılından önce) ] "kavga, döğüş" [...
View ArticleArticle | TURKISH-SAUDI RIVALRY by SVANTE E. CORNELL
Mavi Boncuk |SOURCE TURKISH-SAUDI RIVALRYBehind the Khashoggi AffairSVANTE E. CORNELLSvante E. Cornell is director of the American Foreign Policy Council’s Central Asia-Caucasus Institute, a co-founder...
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Why Turkey is Authoritarian: Right-Wing Rule from Atatürk to Erdogan
Mavi Boncuk | Why Turkey is Authoritarian: Right-Wing Rule from Atatürk to Erdogan by Halil Karaveli [1]Paperback Series: Left Book Club Paperback: 208 pagesPublisher: Pluto Press; 1 edition (June 20,...
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1860 Map | Turquie d'Asie, Syrie
Mavi Boncuk |Turquie d'Asie, Syrie, 1860. Extrait de l'Empire ottomane dressé par le Che.r Lapie
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Berlinale 2018 | Akin and Alper in Competition
Mavi Boncuk |PRESS RELEASES 69TH BERLINALEDEC 13, 2018:BERLINALE 2019: FRANÇOIS OZON, MARIE KREUTZER, DENIS CÔTÉ, FATIH AKIN, ANGELA SCHANELEC, AND EMIN ALPER IN THE COMPETITION / HEINRICH BRELOER,...
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