Topkapı translates to "Cannon Gate" in Turkish, derived from the words top ("cannon" or "ball") and kapı ("gate"). It refers to a gate on the old Byzantine walls along the Sea of Marmara near the palace. The palace, originally named the "New Palace" (Yeni Saray) by Sultan Mehmed II, gained this name in the 19th century.
Topkapi Palace was named by the residents of Istanbul in the 18th century. Its name literally means “cannon gate,” because a coastal gate that was once embedded in the palace walls had had cannons at its sides.
After Constantinople came under Islamic control in 1453, its name gradually evolved and was commonly known as Istanbul, though the formal Ottoman name was Kostantiniyye, a Turkish adaptation of Constantinople, while the name Istanbul emerged from the Greek phrase "eis tin Polin" (into the city) and became official later.
The plot follows a small-time con artist who gets roped into helping a gang of international art thieves steal an emerald-encrusted dagger from Istanbul's Topkapı Palace, while he is simultaneously forced to spy on them for the Turkish police.
The Ottoman Empire sided with Germany in World War I (1914–18); postwar treaties dissolved the empire, and in 1922 the sultanate was abolished by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, who proclaimed the Republic of Turkey the following year.
Topkapi Palace is one of the world's largest surviving palaces and was built between 1460 and 1478 under the orders of Sultan Mehmed II a few years after he conquered Constantinople.
Constantinople renamed Istanbul Built as Byzantium about 657, then renamed Constantinople in the 4th century after Constantine the Great made the city his capital, the Turkish city of Istanbul officially received its present name on 3-28-1930. -Encyclopedia Britannica.
“Verily, you shall conquer Constantinople. What a wonderful army will that army be, and what a wonderful commander will that conqueror be.”5 This is the famous “conquest hadith,” the validity of which has been attested to by authoritative Islamic scholars of ahadith, such as Ibn Abdulbarr an-Namari (d.
What was the name of Turkey before 1923? The area where Turkey is now located was home to many different powers. The most recent empire that occupied the Anatolian peninsula before the founding of the Republic of Turkey was the Ottoman Empire. The empire was dissolved in 1922 following its loss in World War I.
All of them were of slave origin, as was expected during the sultanate, since the traditional idea of marriage was considered inappropriate for the sultan, who was not expected to have any personal allegiances beyond his governmental role; however, Hürrem Sultan managed to become the legal wife of Suleiman, and Nurbanu ...
Tsarigrad or Tsargorod, also Czargrad and Tzargrad, is a Slavic name for the city or land of Constantinople (present-day Istanbul in Turkey), the capital of the Byzantine Empire.
In a well-known hadith, Muhammad defines Islam as witnessing that there is no deity but God and that Muhammad is God's Messenger, giving of alms (zakat), performing the ritual prayer, fasting during the month of Ramadan, and making a pilgrimage to the Kaaba: the Five Pillars of Islam are inherent in this declaration of ...
Constantinople became Istanbul because the name "Istanbul" was the common, colloquial Turkish name derived from the Greek "eis tin polin" (to the city) that was used for centuries, and in 1930, the Turkish Republic, under Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, officially mandated its use as part of a larger Turkification and modernization effort, replacing the older Ottoman name Konstantiniyye (adapted from Constantinople).
It is obvious that the present Tigris and Euphrates Rivers formed after the Flood, and on top of sediment laid down by the Flood. Thus, the Garden of Eden can't be located in the Middle East (either in Turkey or the Persian Gulf) on top of rocks laid down by the Flood.
However, many languages also preserve other, traditional names. Greeks continue to call the city Constantinople (Κωνσταντινούπολη Konstantinupoli in Modern Greek) or simply "The City" (η Πόλη i Poli).
In Biblical history, Iraq is also known as Shinar, Sumer, Sumeria, Assyria, Elam, Babylonia, Chaldea, and was also part of the Medo-Persian Empire. Formerly also known as “Mesopotamia,” or “land between two rivers,” the modern name of “Iraq” is sometimes translated “country with deep roots.”
Kadıköy is an older settlement than most of those on the Anatolian side of the city of Istanbul. Relics dating to 5500–3500 BC (Chalcolithic period) have been found at the Fikirtepe Mound, and articles of stone, bone, ceramic, jewelry and bronze show that there has been a continuous settlement since prehistoric times.
The first church dedicated to Hagia Eirene is generally attributed to Constantine (306-337). There are other sources, though, suggest that there was already a temple or small church here that Constantine (or his son Constantius II) rebuilt or expanded.
The following ones are given in chronological order: 1) the Tomb of Bayezid II (1513); 2) the Tomb of Selim I (1522); 3) the Tomb of Süleyman I the Magnificent (1568); 4) the Tomb of Selim II (1576/1577); 5) the Tomb of Murad III (1599/1600); 6) the Tomb of Mehmed III (1608/09); 7) the Tomb of Ahmed I (1617); 8) the ...
