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Istanbul: Memories and the City (İstanbul: Hatıralar ve Şehir) is a largely autobiographical memoir by Orhan Pamuk that is deeply melancholic. It talks about the vast cultural change that has rocked Turkey – the unending battle between the modern and the receding past. It is also a eulogy to the lost joint family tradition.
Version 2.0.0 of VLC media player was released on February 18, 2012. [12] [37] The version for the Windows Store was released on March 13, 2014. Support for Windows RT, Windows Phone and Xbox One were added later. [38] As of 2016 VLC is the third in the sourceforge.net overall download count, [39] and there have been more than 3 billion ...
Orhan Pamuk has called De Amicis's work the best book written about Istanbul in the nineteenth century, [1] [4] while Umberto Eco stated that De Amicis' description of the city was the most cinematic, [5] and himself used the guide when visiting Constantinople. [1] Jason Goodwin has described the work as a real Victorian tour de force. [4]
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Beyazıt State Library (Turkish: Beyazıt Devlet Kütüphanesi; formerly known as the Ottoman Public Library) is a book depositary and digital library in Istanbul. [2] One of Turkey's oldest libraries, it is the first national library of Ottoman manuscripts and one of the country's six legal deposit libraries.
Reşad Ekrem Koçu (1905 – July 6, 1975) was a Turkish writer and historian. His best known work is the unfinished Istanbul Encyclopedia (İstanbul Ansiklopedisi), which recounts many tales of Istanbul from Ottoman times.
Constantinople: City of the World's Desire 1453-1924 is a 1995 non-fiction book by Philip Mansel, covering Constantinople (now Istanbul) during the rule of the Ottoman Empire. The author hoped to show positive aspects of the Ottoman Empire while acknowledging some negative aspects. [1]
Download QR code; Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... The Bastard of Istanbul; Behemoth (novel) The Black Book (Pamuk novel)