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• Patriarch Bartholomew: We owe our hospitals to Byzantium

  
  Ellopos Blog — Authority: 106
  How many people know that the modern hospital originated in the Eastern Roman Empire, also known as the Byzantine Empire? It is widely acknowledged that the first hospitals were created in Cappadocia, sometime around 370 A.D. by St. Basil, Bishop of Caesarea. There had been a tradition since Antiquity of maintaining ...
  5 days ago

• The Met Medieval

  
  The Errant sthete — Authority: 127
  This superbly carved portrait bust presents a pensive woman with a compelling gaze holding a scroll, the symbol of an educated person. The delicate, sensitive carving and the highly polished finish suggest that it was carved in Constantinople, capital of the Byzantine Empire and, it would appear, a forward thinking ...
  6 days ago

• Kiva Han

  
  Ask MetaFilter — Authority: 646
  Where is the first coffee house in the world? Im told its a place called Kiva Han in the suburbs of Istanbul. Has anyone visited, seen, or discovered any details on the history or location of this place?
  1 week ago

• 1463: David of Trebizond and his heirs

  
  ExecutedToday.com — Authority: 425
  On this date in 1463, the last regal claimants of Byzantium’s last successor state were executed in Constantinople. They were, by this time, two years deposed from actual power. David of Trebizond (aka David Comnenos) had inherited the enclave “empire” clinging to the Black Sea coast in 1459, and proved ...
  1 week ago

• Patriarch says people of faith have role in caring for environment – The Catholic Review

  
  Cooler Choice — Authority: 161
  Baltimore Sun Patriarch says people of faith have role in caring for environment The Catholic Review NEW ORLEANS – Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople opened a symposium on the environmental challenges in the Mississippi … Ecumenical Symposium Highlights the Environment Vatican Radio Orthodox leader ...
  2 weeks ago

• Rumi Darwaza – in Lucknow India

  
  Dummidumbwit's Weblog — Authority: 441
  Rumi Darwaza in Lucknow India Rumi Darwaza, Lucknow The Rumi Darwaza The Rumi Darwaza, or Turkish Gate, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India Rumi Darwaza Rumi Darwaza Location: Old Lucknow near Chowk, close to Bada Imambara Ideal Time to Visit: Anytime ...
  3 weeks ago

• Robert Fisk: Genocide forgotten: Armenians horrified by treaty with Turkey

  
  Survival News Network — Authority: 143
  In the autumn of 1915, an Austrian engineer called Litzmayer, who was helping build the Constantinople-Baghdad railway, saw what he thought was a large Turkish army heading for Mesopotamia. But as the crowd came closer, he realised it was a huge caravan of women, moving forward under the supervision of soldiers.The ...
  3 weeks ago

• Robert Fisk: Genocide forgotten: Armenians horrified by treaty with Turkey

  
  The Gates of Hell — Authority: 134
  In the autumn of 1915, an Austrian engineer called Litzmayer, who was helping build the Constantinople-Baghdad railway, saw what he thought was a large Turkish army heading for Mesopotamia. But as the crowd came closer, he realised it was a huge caravan of women, moving forward under the supervision of soldiers. The ...
  4 weeks ago

• Turkish Season in France | De Byzance à Istanbul

  
  Mavi Boncuk — Authority: 119
  Mavi Boncuk | De Byzance à Istanbul Un port pour deux continents Galeries nationales (Grand Palais, Champs-Elysées) Paris, France October 10, 2009 – January 25, 2010
  4 weeks ago

• Hans Christian Andersen, the traveller

  
  Mavi Boncuk — Authority: 119
  Drawings made by Andersen[1] on his journey to Turkey in 1841 Copyright © Det Kongelige Bibliotek (Denmark) Mavi Boncuk | Travel through Europe during the mid-19th century was by stagecoach, often in cramped, uncomfortable conditions. The advent of the railway during this period improved people’s way of ...
  5 weeks ago

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