( France guide book )Istanbul guide book is wonderful tour through the magnificent city,and too-little-know,guiding of Istanbul .

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( in English guide book ) Turkey guide book is wonderful tour through the magnificent ancient city,and too-little-know.Full of the Tıurkey's pictures too.This book is guiding you about Turkey.

Code No: bp-2005-0061

( in English guide book ) Ephesus guide book is wonderful tour through the magnificent ancient city,and too-little-know.

Code No: bp-2005-0062

Asia Minor is a high tableland which rises from the Aegean coast in the west and extends to the mountain ranges of eastern Turkey.It served as a bridge for many historic migrations from one continent to the other.The high volcanic plateau at the centre of this peninsula is known as Cappadocia,and since prehistoric times it has been the home of various civilizations.In later centuries it served as a refuge for the Christians who escaped from the Romans and the Arabs.The mural paintings which these religious communities left behind in their churches have survived to the present day and are among the finest examples of Byzantine art.

Code No: bp-2005-0063

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(Foreword)The nations of our time find themselves in a satate of continuous change and development.Within this environment the main challenge is to be able to exist with a new identity.The improvements of the globallizing world,which could fill up a whole new century can only be meaningful by preserving the nation's and the individual's very reasons for existence.This,in effect will be in accordance with the nature of the cultural accumulation flowing from the local to the nation and eventually to the universe.In order for Turkey to be able to realise such an agenda,it has to make use of the enormous accumulation,which is impossible to recraate once more,buy recognising all values.İf the cultural wealth,from cities to houses,from architecture to embroidery,is consciously subjected to promotion and research it deserves then 'Turkey' and the 'World' will benefit in numerous ways

Code No: bp-2005-0065

(Divani) This is a more lively,highly decorated form of Ta'Iiq.From the time of Sultan Selim I onwards it was used by the Turks in writing out fermans (imperial rescripts) and its use in any other type of document was strictly forbidden.( Jell Divani)This type of script was invented by the Ottoman Turks and consisted of a more complex,ornately embellished and decorated form of Divani.It was employed only in important documents connected with the Sultan or the Saray.It was a rather difficult type of script to read.(Rika)This script was the result of a number of changes introduced into Rika' script.It was developed in response to the need felt for a practical everyday script that could be written with facility and rapidity. Before the introduction of the new Turkish alphabet this script was used in correspondence,petitions and official entries in State documents.Later it greatly improved in beauty of form.

Code No: bp-2005-0066

Splendors of the Ottoman Sultans is the first major international exhibition to view these monarchs through the art,ornamentation and other objects that they created,called forth or commissioned.The six hundred years-long existence of the Ottoman Empire,under one of the most durable and successful dynasties on earth,is a chronicle of mystery,intrigue,beauty, and power left to posterity by a simultaneously tough and creative people.It begins modestly with the rise of Osman Gazi’s small frontier principality around the year 1300,and reaches its zenith under Suleyman the Magnificient in the 16th century,when the Empire straddled “four seas and three continents.” It comes down to World War in I the early 20th century and ends with the birth of modern Turkey still surrounded by Ottoman influence...

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Mehmed Sevki Effendi was born in Kastamonu in 1245 H.He was brought to Istanbul at a very early age and learned Thuluth and Naskhi from his uncle Hulusi Effendi.He received his icazet at the age of fourteen.In spite of his teachers insistence he refused to continue his studies with any other teacher and confined his further studies to an examination of the calligraphic models prepared by Kazasker Mustafa Izzet Effendi.

Code No: bp-2005-0068

(Book Description) Liotard's fine portraits of Westerners in Turkish dress, Carpaccio's turbaned figures,and the coveted "Turkey" carpets that appear in paintings by Lotto and Holbein bear witness to a deep Western fascination with all things Ottoman.It is this cultural influence,spanning five hundred years—from the fall of Constantinople through to the twentieth century—that unites the wealth of paintings,drawings,photography,and decorative objects in this sumptuously illustrated book.The result is a visual feast of Turkish delights,from the exotic allure of the harem and Turkish baths to Ottoman-inspired Western interiors and pavilions;from paintings of Europeans in Turkish costume to carpets,silks,tulips,turbans, Iznik tiles,coffee,tobacco,and croissants.The delightfully informative text explains how Turkey,the gateway to the East,became a fountain of inspiration for so many artistic and cultural fields—painting,ceramics, textiles,interiors,fashion—in the West.

Code No: bp-2005-0069