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The origins of Istanbul University date back to 1453, [13] [3] when it was founded by Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II as a school of philosophy, medicine, law and letters. [13] The University of Constantinople, established in 425 CE by the Eastern Roman emperor Theodosius II as the Pandidacterium, later became known as the Phanar Greek Orthodox College after the Fall of Constantinople in 1453.
Inscription of Beyazıt Tower. Beyazıt Tower, also named Seraskier Tower, from the name of the Ottoman ministry of War, is an 85-metre-tall (279 ft) fire-watch tower located in the courtyard of Istanbul University's main campus (formerly Ottoman Ministry of War) on Beyazıt Square (known as the Forum Tauri in the Roman period) in Istanbul, Turkey.
Davutpaşa Barracks (Turkish: Davutpaşa Kışlası) were Ottoman Army barracks built in the 1800s and located at Davutpaşa neighborhood of Esenler district on the European part of Istanbul, Turkey. The building was used later as a shelter for immigrants during the Balkan Wars and as a military hospital during World War I.
Istanbul University: 1453 [2] Istanbul University-Cerrahpaşa: 2018 Boğaziçi University: 1863 [3] Galatasaray University: 1992 [4] Istanbul Medeniyet University: 2010 Istanbul Technical University: 1773 [5] Marmara University: 1883 [6] Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University: 1882 [7] Yıldız Technical University: 1911 [8] University of Health ...
The late Ottoman Empire modelled its public university system after the Grandes Ecoles of France; it came into being in the late 1800s, with the first institution being the Darülfünun-ı şahane , now Istanbul University. Johann Strauss stated that the Ottoman Empire established its university system later than Austria-Hungary and Russia had.
During the War of Tripoli in 1911, the Balkan War of 1912–1913 and the Great War from 1914 to 1918, Staff Officers acquired much experience, and demonstrated an outstanding success during the Turkish War of Independence between the years 1919–1922. Following the occupation of Istanbul on 16 March 1920, military schools were dissolved by the ...
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Ebru Boyar (2010), Social history of Ottoman Istanbul, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, ISBN 9780521199551; Birge Yildirim (2012), Transformation Of Public Squares Of Istanbul Between 1938—1949 – via International Planning History Society; Gerhard Böwering, ed. (2013). "Istanbul". Princeton Encyclopedia of Islamic Political Thought.