Berlinale European Film Market 2020 | Participation by Turkey
Mavi Boncuk | Berlinale Film Market | Participation by Turkey BG FilmcilikBir FilmBKM - Besiktas Kultur MerkeziBosphorus Film FestivalChantier FilmsCNS SinemacilikDigiGuardiansEla FilmFabula...
View ArticleIn Memoriam | Dr. Esin Atıl (1938 -2020)
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View ArticleArchive | American College for Girls records, 1880s-1979
Mavi Boncuk | See Also Bogazici ArchivesAmerican College for Girls records, 1880s-1979 Creator: American College for Girls (Istanbul, Turkey),.Phys. Desc: 18 linear feet (18 linear feet 37 document...
View ArticleEU Watch | MAM Goes Transparent on CHP
Mavi Boncuk |Pro-PKK Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) Co-Chair Pervin Buldan acknowledged that the party has forged a secret alliance with the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) in the June...
View ArticleProfile | Morier Family of Smyrna
Mavi Boncuk |MORIER, ISAAC ( b.11 Aug 1750 Smyrna, Turkey, fom Vevey, Vaud, Switzerland –d. 17 Aug 1817 Constantinople)A Swiss-born merchant, British by naturalisation, and a member of the...
View ArticleBook | The Balkan Reconquista
Mavi Boncuk |The Balkan Reconquista and Turkey's Forgotten Refugee Crisis by William H. Holt[1]Hardcover: 344 pagesPublisher: University of Utah Press (September 30, 2019)Language: EnglishISBN-10:...
View ArticleBook | The Battle for Central Europe
Mavi Boncuk |New Book: “The Battle for Central Europe” The Siege of Szigetvár, the Death of Süleyman the Magnificent and Nicholas Zrínyi (1566)“The Battle for Central Europe”, edited by Pál Fodor,...
View ArticleThesis | Safavid Conversion Propaganda in Ottoman Anatolia and the Ottoman...
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View ArticleFlorence Nightingale Bicentennial
Mavi Boncuk | Florence Nightingale at 200 at National Gallery, London10 December 2019 - 1 May 2020 | Room 25, Floor 1Hot on the heels of George Eliot’s 2019 bicentenary display is a new...
View ArticleEU Watch | MAM Finds One Man
Mavi Boncuk |The main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) continues to struggle with intraparty conflicts as the opponents of the current administration call for democratic reforms ahead of the...
View ArticleFlorance Nightingale Bicentennial | A strange Illness
(pictured) True lamp of Florence Nightingale. Turkish concertina lantern/ fanous.[*] This type of lantern was used by Florence Nightingale in the Crimean War, although illustrations of the 'lady with...
View ArticleSmithsonian Announcement | Esin Atıl (1937-2020)
Mavi Boncuk |Esin Atıl (1937-2020)February 24, 2020 It is with a heavy heart that the staff of the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art,...
View ArticleWord origin | Sedir, Sedye, Somye, Semer
Mavi Boncuk |Sedir: fromAR ṣadr صدر 1. göğüs, 2. bir şeyin ön veya ileri kısmı, baş köşe, misafir oturtulan yer as in ṣudūr: Pectora [göğüs]. ṣudūr bulmak: zuhur etmek, doğmak. 1. çıkma, öne çıkma,...
View ArticleBefore Covid 19 | Spanish Influenza in Turkey
"Biz ki İstanbul şehriyiz, Seferberliği görmüşüz: Kafkas, Galiçya, Çanakkale, Filistin, vagon ticareti, tifüs ve İspanyol nezlesi bir de İttihatçılar, bir de uzun konçlu Alman çizmesi 914'ten 918'e...
View ArticleBook | Through five Turkish provinces by Mark Sykes
Mavi Boncuk | Mark Sykes: No I do not make cartes.Title:Through five Turkish provinces / by Mark Sykes., .Author: Sykes, Mark, 1879-1919.Sykes, Mark, 1879-1919.Published: London...
View ArticleWord Origins | Sofa, Kanape, Kerevet, Sedir, Katran
Mavi Boncuk |Sofa: sofa EN[1] fromAR ṣuffa ͭ صفّة taş kerevet, sedir, bank, sıra, antik tiyatrolarda oturma sırası. sofá POROldest source: suffe [ Darir (trans.), Kıssa-i Yusuf (1377 yılından önce) :...
View ArticleDr. Esin Atıl and ANAMED Collections
15 jun. 2017Art historian Esin Atıl Collection is in ANAMED Library, consisting of books, magazines and slides in the fields of art history and Islamic art. Corp AuthorKoç Üniversitesi.TitleCatalog of...
View ArticlePaul Weitz and Frankfurter Zeitung in Constantinople 1896-1918
Mavi Boncuk |Paul Weitz and Frankfurter Zeitung in ConstantinoplePaul Weitz, originally Paul Weiß, (b. May 29, 1862 in Ratibor, Upper Silesia, d.1939 in Berlin) was a German journalist.Before 1918,...
View ArticleProfile | Ernst Jäckh ( 1875 – 1959 )
Mavi Boncuk |Ernst Jaeckh [Jäckh | Jackh] (February 22, 1875 in Urach, Germany – August 17, 1959 in New York City, USA) was a German author.He was born in Urach Germany. During the First World War,...
View ArticleThe Osmanischer Lloyd | Friedrich Schrader and Max Übelhör
Mavi Boncuk | Friedrich Schrader (b. November 19, 1865 Wolmirstedt, Prussia – d. August 28, 1922) was a German philologist of oriental languages, orientalist, art historian, writer, social democrat,...
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