It has seen the wash of empires come and go: Mongols, Ottomans, Russians, and Soviets.
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In 1878 the Ottomans lost a war against Russia and consequently some parts of Serbia became independent.
The Ottomans and Arabs also considered the baths to be a place of meeting, relaxation and social relationship.
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These three are only a few of the mad, sad and downright bad Ottomans who lived here between 1465 and 1830.
There are tantalising allusions to both the fascination and the repulsion which animated the later Ottomans' ambivalence towards Europe.
The Ottomans, who governed from the Balkans to Morocco, were being left behind.
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One store, at 555 Madison Avenue, features black velvet ottomans and separate areas for boots, pumps, and animal print heels.
Zeynep created Les Ottomans hotel and was the first woman in history to design a mosque: the Sakirin in Istanbul.
Your national hero, Vasil Levski, fought to free Bulgaria from the Ottomans.
The newest luxury closets are designed to function as rooms in their own right, often with living-room-style seating with couches and ottomans.
Then there is Erdogan's goal of reasserting Turkish regional dominance and reclaiming the lost power of the Ottomans as the leader of the Islamic world.
Head 35km down the B-road, passing Batak (the site of a famous 19th-century uprising against the Ottomans), and continue deeper into the Rhodope Mountains towards Dospot.
Mr Goodwin has written a rich and entertaining book but he has occasionally allowed his affection for the Ottomans to get the better of his historical judgment.
"A lot of people have passed through this country the Byzantines, the Muslims, Tamerlane, the Mongols, the Ottomans, " said Mr. Haddad, seated in the shadow of the convent of St.
Facing off across the river, Les Ottomans is the opposite of contemporary sleek--an Ottoman mansion rebuilt as it would have looked in the 1790s when it was a pasha's seaside retreat.
After collecting a nightcap in the Club Lounge, we contentedly returned to our corner suite, embellished with oil paintings, fresh flower arrangements, leather ottomans, a dramatic half-tester king bed and mirrored French armoires.
In 1402, he turned on, and defeated, the Ottoman Turks, thus giving Christendom a breathing-space after the crushing defeats inflicted on it by the Ottomans at Kosovo in 1389 and Nicopolis seven years later.
Muslim rulers, from the Abbasids in the eighth century to the Mamluk sultanate in Egypt and the Ottomans, developed the institution of military slavery to lessen nepotism and the internal conflicts created by tribal loyalties.
Serb nationalists have a special reverence for parts of Kosovo, notably the Field of Blackbirds, where their forebears' defeat at the hands of the Ottomans in 1389 cast the Serbs into 500 years of Muslim subjugation.
Strategically positioned on historic trade routes linking East and West, this ancient city has conserved an astounding monumental heritage reflecting the diverse cultures of the peoples that have settled here over millennia including the Hittites, Assyrians, Greeks, Romans, Umayyads, Ayyubids, Mongols, Mamelukes and Ottomans.
Mr Rogan usefully highlights lesser-known episodes, such as the impressive expansion of Egypt as a rival to the Ottomans in the early 19th century, or the Rif rebellion in Morocco in the 1920s, when Spanish forces suffered tens of thousands of casualties and a humiliating defeat.
Cotran's austere home, Mr. Pellizzoni ordered suede ottomans and handsome dark club chairs from Ralph Lauren. (On average, he says, 80% of the pieces used come from his former employer, for which he gets a commission.) Fuchsia flowers and ornaments such as Chinese ceramic vases and a small sculpture of the Buddha are scattered over the property.
In fact, given the nature of the operation, coalition casualties have been light. (In a battle for Nasiriya with the Ottomans in 1915, the overconfident British, whose supply lines were also stretched thin, lost 500 men.) Iraq has suffered an unknown but far higher number of combat casualties: several hundred Iraqis were reportedly killed in an engagement at Najaf on March 25th-26th.
Mr. HANSON: That was a very innovative method that the Ottomans used, say, after the 1600's, where they actually used Christian and infidel children who had been brought up into the royal court for key military and diplomatic and bureaucratic posts, on the idea that they were not beholden to a particular clan within Turkey that might threaten the authority of the sultan.
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