The Pre-Columbian Discovery of the American Continent By Muslim Seafarers
Prof. Fuat Sezgin[1] has argued that Muslim seafarers had reached the Americas by 1420, citing as evidence the inscription on a map and the fact that the high longitudinal precision of early maps of...
View ArticleNestorian Schism
The Nestorian Church traces its existence back to Nestorius, fifth-century bishop of Constantinople, who formulated a doctrine that Christ was predominantly human in nature. Although this was declared...
View ArticleClemens Holzmeister (1886 –1983)
Wilfried PoschClemens Holzmeister 1886–1983Architekt zwischen Kunst und Politik416 pages | 13.5 x 20.5 cm ISBN 978-3-99014-020-8Mavi Boncuk |Clemens Holzmeister (27 March 1886 – 12 June 1983) was a...
View ArticleThe Turkish Image | The Anne S. K. Brown Military Collection
Mavi Boncuk | So mus die Wuth dem Muth der Treu der Meyneyd weichen-- 1695-1710 Rugendas, Georg Philipp, I (artist) One of a collection of large mezzotint pl. by and after Rugendas; cavalry combat...
View ArticleColombus from a Greek Island
Colombus from a Greek Island or Christophoros Columbus: A Byzantine Prince?Extremely speculative... Yet it is fun.Mavi Boncuk |There is a lot of speculation that Columbus came from the island of Khios...
View ArticlePiri Re'is on Colombo
Piri Re'is[1] states that Colombo was Genoese.Mavi Boncuk |Translated off the map Also note them being discovered before he ever arrivedThese coasts are named the shores of Antilia. They were...
View ArticleOrientalism | The Slave Market
Mavi Boncuk |See also:The Lure of the East, which opened June 2008 in at Tate Britain, explored British orientalist painting's preoccupation with harems, slaves and the Holy Land.After Sir William...
View ArticlePapal Visit Number Four and More Before
Mavi Boncuk | Pope Francis (Latin: Franciscus; Italian: Francesco) born Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the leader of the 1.2 billion-member Roman Catholic Church would be the fourth pope[1] to visit the United...
View ArticleProfile | Edwin Lawrence Godkin (1831-1902)
Mavi Boncuk | Edwin Lawrence Godkin (October 2, 1831 – May 21, 1902) was an Irish-born American journalist and newspaper editor. He founded The Nation, and was editor-in-chief of the New York Evening...
View ArticleJean-Etienne Liotard’s Self-Portrait “peintre turc”
Mavi Boncuk |German traveller, Karl Gottlob Küttner, when passing the artist in a public procession in Geneva one day the wrote in his journal: “Amidst the crowd of people I noticed a grotesque...
View ArticleBook | Late Ottoman Palestine
Mavi Boncuk | Late Ottoman Palestine : the period of Young Turk rule Edited by Yuval Ben-Bassat[1] and Eyal GinioLondon ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2011 ISBN: 9781848856318 Yuval Ben-Bassat is Lecturer...
View ArticleGuns of Orban and Munir Ali
Constantinople's walls fell on May 29, 1453 which happens to be a Tuesday. Even today some Greeks consider Tuesday to be an unlucky day.Mavi Boncuk | Orban was Hungarian according to the majority of...
View ArticleTastes of Mavi Boncuk is now part of Mavi Boncuk
Mavi Boncuk |Tastes of Mavi Boncukis now part of Mavi Boncuk.Go to Mavi Boncuk and search for food related items and Tastes of Mavi Boncuk for the latest articles.
View ArticleBook | A Baghdad Cookery Book
Mavi Boncuk |A Baghdad Cookery BookMuhammad b.al-Hasan b.Muhammad b.al-Karîm, Charles Perry (tr.) ISBN-10 1-903018-42-0 ISBN-13 978-1-903018-42-2 Published Dec 2005 127 pages; 187×138 mm; paperback;...
View ArticleThe Heat of the Matter
Source: http://www.gourmet.com/magazine/2000s/2009/05/heat-of-the-matter-turkish-peppersThe Heat of the Matter | Originally Published May 2009 In a sun-soaked valley in southern turkey, hospitality...
View ArticleTurkie hennes
Recommended : THE LANGUAGE OF FOODEnglish: turkey cock, cock of IndeFrench: poulle d'inde, poulle d'afrique Dutch: Calkoensche henne, Turcsche henneGerman: Indianisch hun, Kalekuttisch hun, Welschhun...
View ArticleMosul | A Kemalist Gambit by David Cuthell
In June 2014 the city of Mosul was captured by the terrorist organisation Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant during the 2014 Northern Iraq offensive, but there are plans to recapture it with the help...
View ArticleMirror Mirror on the Wall...Where is Mavi Boncuk After All
Mavi Boncuk |Mavi Boncuk now has Mirrors in UK, Germany, Greece and France, based on readership and popularity....
View ArticleThe sense of the Perinçek v Switzerland case by Maxime Gauin
Mavi Boncuk | The sense of the Perinçek v Switzerland case by Maxime GauinMaxime Gauin is a researcher at the Center for Eurasian Studies (AVIM) and a PhD candidate at the Middle East Technical...
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