Tigranes the Great
Rise to Power
The Decline of the Seleucid Empire
Antiochus VII marked the end of the strong Seleucid rulers, leaving only Syria within the shrinking empire’s...
Mithradates VI of Pontus
Clash with Rome
Roman Supremacy in the Mediterranean
After the Punic Wars, Rome emerged as the dominant power in the Mediterranean. The Roman province of Asia...
Forebodings Two Sketches part 3
“Let my fate go whither it listeth.”
In the darkest corner of a ward, in the bed marked number twenty- four, a farm laborer of...
Istanbul world city
A city of world
Istanbul; the capital of three great empires, the host for the cultures of the communities that have been living in Anatolia...
Groves Istanbul
The Yildiz Grove
Sultan Selim III built a pavilion named "Yildiz" -meaning the Star- for his mother Mihrisah Sultan in this grove he admired in...
History Istanbul
Istanbul lived it`s “Golden Age” between 527 and 565.
It was the most magnificent and the greatest city of its era with a population more...
Private Istanbul tour Congo Diplomatic group
Guided Tour Istanbul for the Republic of Congo Diplomatic group on 11th March 2016
We started the Guided Tour Istanbul from Hippodrome. Again it`s Friday...
Wooden workmanship Byzantium
The wooden workmanship at the Byzantium
The centers of the Byzantine wooden workmanship which is not widely known are Istanbul, Antakya and Iskenderiye.
Today, there are...
Kadikoy, Bostanci & Uskudar
Istanbul is a matchless city on earth with its unique characteristic of setting the two continents apart.
The Bosporus which passes right through the middle...
Shirts with Talisman
One of the interesting topics which the periodical elaborates is about “Shirts with Talisman ". Orhan Saik Gokyay tells the following related to the...
