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It was built by Taban Ahmed Agha, the leader of Sipahi (English: professional cavalryman in the Ottoman Empire) of Şebinkarahisar in the 17th century. It was constructed from loocal black stone in typical Ottoman Taşhan architecture. There are arched spaces on two-storeys on both sides of the entrance, and a courtyard in the middle.
The Black Stone is seen through a portal in the Kaaba. The Black Stone (Arabic: ٱلْحَجَرُ ٱلْأَسْوَد, romanized: al-Ḥajar al-Aswad) is a rock set into the eastern corner of the Kaaba, the ancient building in the center of the Grand Mosque in Mecca, Saudi Arabia.
Uprisings in Ottoman territory had many far-reaching consequences during the 19th century and determined much of Ottoman policy during the early 20th century. Many Ottoman Turks questioned whether the policies of the state were to blame: some felt that the sources of ethnic conflict were external, and unrelated to issues of governance. While ...
Osmannama ("The Book of Osman"), the fourth unfinished chapter that was supposed to contain a history of the Ottoman dynasty prior to Suleiman, ends in 1402. It covers nearly a century of Ottoman history with 205 folios and 34 paintings. [2] The longest of the three volumes that are still in existence is the fifth, also known as the ...
Byzantine emperor Andronikos II Palaiologos tried to form an alliance with the Ilkhanid Mongols against the Ottoman threat. He even offered a political marriage to Mahmud Ghazan. The recent defeat at Marj al-Saffar and the rapid decentralization of Mongol domains in Anatolia and the Middle East made him decline.
Mustafa Naima (Ottoman Turkish: مصطفى نعيما; Muṣṭafā Na'īmā; Aleppo, Ottoman Syria 1655 – 1716) was an Ottoman bureaucrat and historian who wrote the chronicle known as the Tārīḫ-i Na'īmā (Naima's History).
The works deal with Ottoman history from the beginning of the Ottoman state until the time of Mehmed II. It is a chronological history of the Ottoman Empire between the years 1298 and 1472. The work is written in Ottoman Turkish and is partially based on older Ottoman sources, it is more detailed at the events he witnessed personally. His work ...
Geschichte des osmanischen Reiches (German: "History of the Ottoman Empire") is a work by the Austrian orientalist historian Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall. It was written in 10 volumes between 1827 and 1835. The result of 30 years of work, it became the standard reference on the subject.