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1910 | Tatavla Şikago Bakkaliye Mağazası
Mavi Boncuk | Το κατάστημα "Σικάγο"του Μ. Σαμουηλίδη στα Ταταύλα στα M. Samuelides'in Tatavla'daki “Şikago Bakkaliye Mağazası” Dükkan ismi Rumca,Osmanlıca,Fransızca ve Ermenice yazılı tabela ve...
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İSTANBUL ANSİKLOPEDİSİ | SEMAVİ EYİCE (Turkish Posting)
Istanbul Encyclopedia is an unfinished cultural encyclopedia published by Reşad Ekrem Koçu between 1944-1973.The Istanbul Encyclopedia, which set out to create the "log" of Istanbul but remained...
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The Story of Samsun Atatürk Honor Monument
Mavi Boncuk | See also: Mavi Boncuk Articlehttps://maviboncuk.blogspot.com/2020/02/heinrich-krippel-foreign-sculptors-of.htmlThe Story of Samsun Atatürk Honor MonumentSamsun Honor Monument, the symbol...
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Fodla Bread
Fodla was made from high-strength (whole-wheat) flour. It is thinner than pide and rectangular in shape. It is recorded that the Soup Kitchen of the Fatih Mosque Complex handed out fodla with food for...
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Tatavla Festival | Αποκριές στα Ταταύλα | Baklahorani | Μπακλαχοράνι |
In times past, for the local Greek-Orthodox communities in Istanbul, the three weeks preceding Great Lent was a time of carnival as they donned masks and costumes and celebrated with their neighbors...
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Word Origins | Yortu, Lent, Festival, Karnaval, Bayram
In times past, for the local Greek-Orthodox communities in Istanbul, the three weeks preceding Great Lent was a time of carnival as they donned masks and costumes and celebrated with their neighbors...
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1914 | N.B.Brod & Fils Draperie and Fatih-Harbiye Tramway
Mavi Boncuk | N.B.Brod & Fils Draperie advertising panel in Armenian, Greek and Ottoman script. Karaköy - Yüksekkaldırım / 1914No 12 Harbiye-Fatih streetcar in view. In those years, the Company was...
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1914 | Ottoman Aviation
Mavi Boncuk | SOURCEThe history of Turkish aviation started just 10 years after the Wright Brothers first flew the plane with a controllable motor in 1903. In 1912, the Ottoman Empire sent students to...
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Naşit Özcan, and the company he kept
Mavi Boncuk | Amelya ÖzcanAmelya Hanim ( b. ... - d. February 3, 1967, Istanbul)Amelya Hanım, the daughter of the canto player Küçük Verjin[1] and the wife of the theater actor Naşit Özcan, became...
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Mavi Boncuk |SATRANÇ: (ﺳﻄﺮﻧﺞ) i. (Ar. saṭrenc < Fars. şetreng) İki kişi ile, altmış dört kareli bir tahta veya yüzey üzerinde şah, vezir, kale, fil, at, piyon isimlerini alan, farklıbiçim ve...
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Word Origins | Medeni, Medeniyet
Mavi Boncuk | medeni/medina: (ﻣﺪﻳﻨﻪ) i. (fromAR medіne) city EN[1] Şehir, kasaba, belde: “Medînetü’n-nebî – Medînetü’r-resul: Peygamber şehri, Medîne.” Hayâl-i yârdan olmaz tehî medîne-i dil / Bu şehr...
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Roman Roads in Asia Minor
from DAVID H. FRENCH VOL. 4 THE ROADS Fasc. 4.1 NOTES ON THE ITINERARIA British Institute at Ankara Electronic Monograph 10 2016Mavi Boncuk | Roman Roads in Asia Minor SOURCEFirst Roman roads started...
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Word origins | Ucube
Mavi Boncuk | UCÛBE: freak, weird EN [1][2] (ﺍﻋﺠﻮﺑﻪ) i. (FromAR ‘aceb “şaşmak”tan u‘cūbe) uˁcūba(t) اعجوبة “acayiplik, çok tuhaf şey, mucize” sözcüğünden alıntıdır. Bu sözcük Arapça ˁacīb “tuhaf”...
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Nicolas Andriomenos Redux
Nicolas Andriomenos was a famous Ottoman Greek ( Rum ) photographer in Istanbul. His photographs were unique. Today there are many collectors who collect those photographs from the studio of Nicolas...
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EU Watch | MAM Ramps Up
Mavi Boncuk |Upon the invitation of CHP Leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, IYI Party Chairman Meral Akşener, Felicity Party Chairman Temel Karamollaoğlu, Democrat Party Chairman Gültekin Uysal, DEVA Party...
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Berlinale 2022 | Meltem Kaptan, Silver Bear for best leading performance
Mavi Boncuk | Silver Bear for best leading performance Meltem Kaptan[1] (Rabiye Kurnaz Vs George W Bush) Silver Bear for best screenplay Laila Stieler (Rabiye Kurnaz Vs George W Bush)Rabiye Kurnaz...
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Kemal Tahir's Mike Hammer
Mavi Boncuk |Mike Hammer[1] stories, written by Kemal Tahir[2] under the name of F. M. İkinci, are published by Çağlayan Publications. These are the four books published between September 1954 and May...
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Fatma İrfan Serhan (1915-1992)
«Bu mektuplarda salt sevdamız olsaydı, onları yayınlamaz, kimselere göstermezdim. Ama onlarda bugün hâlâ «kan ter içinde» yükseltilmeye savaşılan özgürlük, bağımsızlık ve kardeşlik yapısının...
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Kemal Tahir (March 13, 1910 – April 21, 1973)
Mavi Boncuk | KEMAL TAHİR (March 13, 1910 – April 21, 1973)After having a lung operation in 1970, Tahir worked on vernacularizing Marxist terminology and creating a national left ideology, which would...
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