Bank-ı Dersaadet (Bank Of Constantinople)
Mavi Boncuk |Bank-ı Dersaadet (Bank Of Constantinople)In 1844 Babıali (Sublime Porte) the Seat Of Ottoman Government, introduced monetary reforms, In 1845 it gave to Galata bankers a one year...
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First Day Cover | Yassıada Trials
Mavi Boncuk |First Day Cover | Yassıada[1] Trials [1] Yassıada has become synonymous with the May 27, 1960 military coup, the first in Republican history, the trials of the leading politicians of the...
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Dersaadet Tramway Ticket | Azapkapı-Beşiktaş
Bound by an exclusive contract[1] "Construction of the Tramway in Dersaadet and Its Facilities", dated 30th of August, 1869; the management of vehicles that were driven by horses (Hungarian[*] and...
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Book | Jewish Journalism and Printing Houses in The Ottoman Empire And Modern...
A sidebar for the curious. During the 19th century Armenian publishers were printing many Jewish (Sephardic) books in the Ottoman EmpireMavi Boncuk |Jewish Journalism and Printing Houses in The Ottoman...
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Word Origin | Oruç, Iftar, Sahur, Ramazan, Kumanya, Kumpanya
Mavi Boncuk |Oruç: Fast [1] [ Codex Cumanicus, 1303] jejunium –from Persian: oroza oldPersian rōzag - TR: oruǵ [oruc]from Sogdian rōçag (roç=day from ruz) oruç tutma. Iftar: [ İrşadü'l-Mülûk...
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Word origin | Turnuva
Mavi Boncuk |Turnuva: tournament EN[1] [ Mehmed Bahaeddin (Toven), Yeni Türkçe Lugat, 1924] turnuva: Mağlup olanın sahadan çekilmesi suretiyle yapılan müsabakaların hey'et-i umumiyesi. fromFR tournoi...
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Book | The Istanbul Letters of Alka Nestoroff
Mavi Boncuk |K. Volarić (Ed.): The Istanbul LettersKlara Volarić (ed.), The Istanbul Letters of Alka Nestoroff. Bonn: Max Weber Stiftung, 2015. (Memoria. Fontes minores ad Historiam Imperii Ottomanici...
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1915-1920 Streetcars of Istanbul
Mavi Boncuk |The idea of the electric streetcar emerged just before World War I. After the establishment of electric power plants and railway system, the first electric streetcar trip started on Jan....
View ArticleArticle | Where Does Erdogan Want To Take Turkey?
Mavi Boncuk |Where Does Erdogan Want To Take Turkey? By Soner CagaptaySoner Cagaptay is the Beyer Family Fellow and director of the Turkish Research Program at The Washington Institute.U.S. News &...
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Word Origin | Ekmek, somun, çörek, pide, poğaça
Mavi Boncuk | Ekmek: Bread EN [1]; oldTR: [ Uygurca Maniheist metinler, 900]; ötmek [ekmek] oldTR: [ Kaşgarî, Divan-i Lugati't-Türk, 1073]; etmek: al-χubz [ekmek] (...) ötmek [ekmek, üç ayrı yerde]...
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Zonaro | My Wife made me do it
"Elisa[*], my beloved wife, it is thanks to you that I found the strength to live in Istanbul. If you had not come earlier and made a circle of friends, and if you had not given me courage, perhaps...
View ArticleHenri Cayol | Turkish Posting on Lithography
Mavi Boncuk |TAŞ BASMASITaş kalıplarla yapılan baskı ve bu teknikle basılmış eser.Grekçe lithos (taş) ve graphein (yazmak) kelimelerinden oluşan litografya (İt. lithographia)/litografi (Fr....
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Ottoman Fez
Mavi Boncuk | The fez, first emerged, as it has been claimed, in Morocco, in North Africa, was also used by the Ottomans in the XVII century. It was during the reign of Mahmut II. that the fez became...
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Serpentine Column | Procession through the Hippodrome
Serpentine Column[1] was last seen in an etching in a book by Aubry de La Mottraye.Mavi Boncuk |Procession through the Hippodrome, Constantinople (Aubry de La Mottraye's "Travels throughout Europe,...
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Word Origin | Korsan, hussar and more
O’er the glad waters of the dark blue sea,Our thoughts as boundless, and our souls as free,Far as the breeze can bear, the billow foam,Survey our empire and behold our home!These are our realms, nno...
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Word Origin | Vatman, Kondüktör, Şoför
Mavi Boncuk | Pictured, a vatman (driver) of an Istanbul streetcar adjusting the wattage with a hand lever for motion. Vatman Sadettin Topuz 1944 | İETT ArchiveVatman: [ Mehmed Bahaeddin (Toven), Yeni...
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1899 | Map of Byzantine Constantinople
Mavi Boncuk | Map of Byzantine Constantinople drawn F.R. von Hubner for and under the direction of Prof. A. van Milingen from the book Constantinople of A. van Millingen[1]Large Jpeg Map[1] Alexander...
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Turkish Film Market | TUIK Statistical Data
Mavi Boncuk |TUIK Statistical Data The number of cinemas has increased by 8.6%. 2015 increase in number of movie theaters in Turkey to 2 356 was 8.6% compared to 2014. The number of seats in this...
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Yugurs and Yugur Ethnonyms
Mavi Boncuk | A Yugur family in Lanzhou, Gansu, 1944. Mavi Boncuk | Yugur Ethnonyms[1]Currently, the official name for the nationality of the Yugur is Yugur or, in Chinese, Yùgù (lit. rich union). This...
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Tengrism and Irq Bitig
Omen 11 (4-4-3 dice) of the Irk Bitig (folio 13a): "There comes a messenger on a yellow horse (and) an envoy on a dark brown horse, bringing good tidings, it says. Know thus: (The omen) is extremely...
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