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Bursa (Turkish pronunciation: [ˈbuɾsa]; Greek: Προῦσα Prusa, Latin: Prusa), historically known as Prusa or Hüdavendigar (خداوندگار, meaning "God's Gift" in Ottoman Turkish, a name of Persian origin) is a city in northwestern Turkey and the administrative center of Bursa Province. The fourth-most populous city in Turkey and ...
The export of silk in 1902 valued at £620,000. [2] 1904 - Bursa Museum of Turkish and Islamic Art established. 1910 – Population: 75,000. [2] 1920 – City taken by Greek forces. [3] 1923 – City becomes part of the newly formed Republic of Turkey. 1929 - Bursa Museum of Turkish and Islamic Art relocated.
Gulf of the Ganges (Bay of Bengal) left, Southeast Asian peninsula in the center, South China Sea right, with "Sinae" (China). The Ptolemy world map is a map of the world known to Greco-Roman societies in the 2nd century. It is based on the description contained in Ptolemy 's book Geography, written c. 150. Based on an inscription in several of ...
t. e. The history of post-confederation Canada began on July 1, 1867, when the British North American colonies of Canada, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia were united to form a single Dominion within the British Empire. [1] Upon Confederation, the United Province of Canada was immediately split into the provinces of Ontario and Quebec. [2]
Siege of Bursa. The siege of Bursa occurred from 1317 until the capture on 6 April 1326, [1] when the Ottomans deployed a bold plan to seize Prusa (modern-day Bursa, Turkey). The Ottomans had not captured a city before; the lack of expertise and adequate siege equipment at this stage of the war meant that the city fell only after six or nine years.
Early world maps. The earliest known world maps date to classical antiquity, the oldest examples of the 6th to 5th centuries BCE still based on the flat Earth paradigm. World maps assuming a spherical Earth first appear in the Hellenistic period. The developments of Greek geography during this time, notably by Eratosthenes and Posidonius ...
Map highlighting Yoho National Park in red. The Burgess Shale is a fossil -bearing deposit exposed in the Canadian Rockies of British Columbia, Canada. [2][3] It is famous for the exceptional preservation of the soft parts of its fossils. At 508 million years old (middle Cambrian), [4] it is one of the earliest fossil beds containing soft-part ...
Eoarchean geology is the study of the oldest preserved crustal fragments of Earth during the Eoarchean era from 4.031 to 3.6 billion years ago. Major well-preserved rock units dated Eoarchean are known from three localities, the Isua Greenstone Belt in Southwest Greenland, the Acasta Gneiss in the Slave Craton in Canada, and the Nuvvuagittuq Greenstone Belt in the eastern coast of Hudson Bay ...