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folks just look at these absolutely charming Nativity-themed Ottoman Armenian miniatures from a 1678 hymnal made by the priest Yakob Pēligratc‘i in Constantinople: left, the Annunciation, with Ottoman floral motif; right, the Magi, cute little domes behind (Walters Ms. W.547):

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2019-12-24

Fun fact: the tulip isn't native to Amsterdam. Often associated w/ Dutch culture, but wasn't until the 16th century that the Flemish diplomat to the Ottoman Empire brought tulip bulbs from Istanbul. Learn more in Dutch Painting from the Age of Rembrandt. https://t.co/YHiJ8uNZHM

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2019-12-24

1789 At the Siege of Izmail (part of Russo-Turkish War 1787–1792) Suvorov led 31,000 Russian troops against the 40,000 Ottoman garrison. It ended with a crushing victory for Russia with the Ottomans losing the city, more than 25,000 (killed) and 9,000 captured.

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2019-12-22

Art I did of my character Nuriye from my Ottoman Empire fantasy comic "The Alchemist of Aurillia" which you can read on my Patreon

https://t.co/54x0fZXDfY

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2019-12-05

War of Candia – Sixth Ottoman - Venetian War 

The Cretan War, or War of Candia, as the sixth Turkish–Venetian War is better known, was a conflict between the Republic of Venice and her allies against the Ottoman Empire and the Barbary States...

https://t.co/YM0YWYOb0q

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2019-11-29

Today I’m going to share from a 17C copy of Piri Reis’ Kitab-Bahriye, a collection of information about various islands and coastlines in Here, for example, are the coastlines by (Tavuk Island), that of and

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2019-11-06

This is Danyal Deathadder. He deserted the Ottoman military to be a pirate. He's pretty quiet, never interrupts. Wears a scarf always for personal reasons.

He's in my comic JOE IS DEAD: https://t.co/glefcjtGGr

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2019-11-05

Bien avant Copernic ou Galilée, l'astronomie avait connu en terre d'Islam des avancées phénoménales. Des Abbassides aux Ottomans, découvrez la première partie d'une histoire riche en Hommes et inventions.

https://t.co/7AVYafc3qn

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2019-11-04

Ottoman bashi-bazouk (osmanlı başıbozuklar)
Stanislaus von Chlebowski (Polnisch Stanisław Chlebowski,1835-1884)

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2019-11-02

🌟 MIAM MIAM 🌟2/3

Sa paternité. Parmi les plus populaires, celle des soldats de l'Empire ottoman qui, au Moyen-Âge, utilisaient leurs épées pour faire rôtir la viande. La posture verticale aurait quant à elle été inventée en 1867 par un certain Iskender Efendi 🤓🤓

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2019-11-02

On this day in 1911, an Italian pilot named Giulio Gavotti drops four grenades from an Etrich Taube monoplane onto Ottoman positions in Libya. It's history's first air strike. No casualties are inflicted.

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2019-11-01

This is a kind of monument called a nişan taşı (target stone). They mark the spot where a sultan hit a long-distance target with a bow or rifle. This nişan taşı, in an area called Nişantaşı, has a poem recording how Mahmud II shot an ostrich egg from 600m in 1811 🥚🔫🤷‍♂️

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2019-10-23

1827 Battle of Navarino was fought between allied Franco-Russian-British naval forces and the fleet assisted by the Egyptians, as part of the Wars of Independence. It was a decisive win for the allied forces against a decaying Ottoman Empire.

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2019-10-20

Some more vipers! And oh wait, what's this?? A cobra has snuck in and hints at the next batch of adopts! 👀

Price: $20

1. Ottoman Viper
2. Kanburian Bamboo Viper
3. Bush Viper
4. Rinkhals Cobra

Comment or DM to claim!

Base (C) @/PoodleWise

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2019-10-20

Did you know? The original World of Kaiserreich's were 'history book'-style images with text added on top, before we began narrating them and turning them into videos. The original World of Kaiserreich was this Ottoman Empire illustration.

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2019-09-29

process of figuring out what i want my tyrannical ottoman empire-era fairy queen to look like (and also the carrier pigeon who mentored her but then she [literally] ate his heart)

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2019-09-22

An Ottoman coffee-house in the moonlight, Ivan Aivazovsky (1817–1900)
دارة قهوة على ضوء القمر

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2019-09-03

Leopold is a gun that was owned by the Holy Roman Emperor, Leopold I. (51)
-CV. Yamaya Yoshitaka
-an artist
-has a heart of gold
-very efficient in action
-call Margarita Gretl
-was suspicious of the Ottoman but got to know them and is coffee buddy with Mahmut now

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2019-09-02

Sick Man of Europe (Ottoman Empire) and Sick Man of Asia (Qing Empire)

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2019-09-02

Also miniature of Safavid Shah Ismail I leading the charge against the Ottomans at the Battle of Chaldiran, which signalled the beginning of a 41-year period of conflict with the Ottoman Empire, that would only temporarily end with the Peace of Amasya in 1555.

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2019-08-23