La La… Pasha
Since we are on the subject of the Ottomans in Erzurum, it would be remiss…
Persian
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The Principality Nobody Was Watching
An empire that began by being beneath notice Anatolia had been under Mongol authority for…
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The Word That Was Demoted
In the thirteenth century the Mongol Empire of Genghis Khan stretched from the South China…
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The Hawk That Became an Eagle
We have met the beyliks, the Saltukids among them; but independent as they were, they…
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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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The Shape and the Name
Theodosiopolis changed hands with a regularity that must have exhausted its stonemasons: Byzantines, Arabs, Byzantines…
