Don’t miss out latest work, ARCHITECTURE AND MATERIAL POLITICS IN THE FIFTEENTH-CENTURY OTTOMAN EMPIRE, for which I had the honour to prepare the illustrations!
https://t.co/CjymtWoZ89

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during a fearsome battle, an ottoman warrior loses his prized blade as it falls into the ocean. deep below, a mermaid guards his new treasure, hoping to meet this 'nandor the relentless' one day

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Presentation at the Temple (1460), Cardinal Trevisan (1459-60) & St George (1460). The Portrait came about when the Pope commissioned Mantegna to paint the Cardinal who was part of the Council of Mantua (1459). The Council sought to rally Europeans against the Ottomans

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Lofi Ottoman Istanbul dream, anime movie 🌱 Lofi, chill beat. [l'Outlander – Goshen]
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Revisiting my Top 10 Wars & Top 10 Empires for my Substack


TOP 10 WARS
(8) SPANISH CONQUEST OF THE AMERICAS -
SPANISH CONQUEST OF THE AZTEC EMPIRE
(1519-1521)

TOP 10 EMPIRES
(8) OTTOMAN EMPIRE (1299-1922)

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Map of the Southern Part of the Calabrian Peninsula and the Straits of Messina by Piri Reis (Ottoman, 1465–1555) Baltimore, Walters Art Museum Ms. W.658, fol. 213b.

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A map of Crimea by the Ottoman geographer Piri Reis, c. 1521.

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4/ Annexation of Bosnia in 1908 set in motion series of events: Ottomans kicked out of Balkans during Balkan Wars 1912-1913. Also Serbia angry by annexation of Bosnia. This lead in 1914 to killing, in Sarajevo, of Archduke Franz Ferdinand by a Bosnian Serb, which triggered WWI.

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3/ After Austria-Hungary took control of Bosnia in 1878 from the Ottoman Empire, Austria-Hungary printed these stamps to make clear to world that Bosnia was part of their empire. 2 yrs later Austria-Hungary annexed Bosnia.

30 Postman, 35 Pliva Lake, 40 Mail coach, 45 Sarajevo.

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In his Description of a pilgrimage from Konstanz to Jerusalem from 1486, German nobleman Conrad Grünenberg depicted this Ottoman ship he saw near Modon.

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Just a few manga I hope Viz Media brings to the west to get official translations. I would love to buy english volumes for these:

Toge Toge by Kenta Tsuchida
Killer Friends by Rockin' Cartoon
Red List: Zetsumetsu Shinkaron by Katsutoshi Murase
Ottoman by Shinnosuke Kanazawa

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Ottoman women used rosebuds and hibiscus in a mortar for blush and lipstick. When they diluted the same mixture with hot water, they obtained lipstick. So they managed to look beautiful in natural ways.

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1499 First encounter of the Battle of Zonchio /Sapienza (part of the Second Ottoman-Venetian War 1499-1503) took place. The Venetian fleet was commanded by Antonio Grimani, the Ottoman one by Kemal Reis.

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Iznik dish with the Virgin and Child, tulips and carnations, c1650

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