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Modern-day Fondaco dei Turchi. The Fondaco dei Turchi (Venetian: Fontego dei Turchi, Turkish: Türk Hanı) is a palazzo in classical Venetian style, later referred to as the Turks' Inn, on the Grand Canal of Venice, northeastern Italy.
An American-style 15×15 crossword grid layout. A crossword (or crossword puzzle) is a word game consisting of a grid of black and white squares, into which solvers enter words or phrases ("entries") crossing each other horizontally ("across") and vertically ("down") according to a set of clues. Each white square is typically filled with one ...
The abbreviation is not always a short form of the word used in the clue. For example: "Knight" for N (the symbol used in chess notation) Taking this one stage further, the clue word can hint at the word or words to be abbreviated rather than giving the word itself. For example: "About" for C or CA (for "circa"), or RE.
King George II Inn in Bristol, Pennsylvania, founded in 1681, the oldest United States–based inn American Scenery—the Inn on the Roadside, an 1872 portrait. Inns are generally establishments or buildings where travelers can seek lodging, and usually, food and drink. Inns are typically located in the country or along a highway.
The Kürkçü Han, one of several historic hans in the surrounding area. The high stone building in the background is the Büyük Yeni Han.. As the neighbourhood of the Büyük Valide Han is at the heart of the city's historic merchant district, the area is filled with a number of other historic Ottoman commercial buildings.
Cities and towns with a population of over 7,000 inhabitants according to the Turkish Statistical Institute [2] are listed in the following table along with the results of the censuses from October 1990 and October 2000, and the provinces in which the cities are located. The numbers of inhabitants refers to the actual city, not the city's ...
Great Inn) (Greek: Μεγάλο Πανδοχείο Megálo Pandocheío) is the largest caravansarai on the island of Cyprus and is considered to be one of the finest buildings on the island. [1] Located in the capital of Cyprus , it was built by the Ottomans in 1572, the year after they had seized Cyprus from the Venetians .
The imaret's north door (left) and the red-and-white former palace of Lady Tunshuk.. The Haseki Sultan waqf complex was constructed at the height of the Ottoman era. In addition to the soup kitchen, the complex consisted of a mosque, a 55-room pilgrim hospice, and an inn (khan) for travellers.