A King, an Unfinished Business, and the Teutonic Custom
Once upon a time there was a prince. What he liked above all things were…
Urania
This category is about architecture.
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La La… Pasha
Since we are on the subject of the Ottomans in Erzurum, it would be remiss…
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A Mosque That Names Itself
Two years after the Saltukids had married their way into three neighbouring houses, they began…
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Four Neighbours and a Ransom
Manzikert in 1071 is conventionally filed under catastrophe: the Byzantine army broken, Anatolia opened. For…
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The Shape and the Name
Theodosiopolis changed hands with a regularity that must have exhausted its stonemasons: Byzantines, Arabs, Byzantines…
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The Twin Minarets
I have already written about the Yakutiye, one of the two great madrasas of Erzurum….
