545 historic Istanbul buildings restored to resist earthquakes
After the 1999 Izmit earthquake, 545 historical buildings in Istanbul, Türkiye were restored to make them earthquake-resistant. The General Directorate...
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After the 1999 Izmit earthquake, 545 historical buildings in Istanbul, Türkiye were restored to make them earthquake-resistant. The General Directorate...
Earthquake resistance of historical buildings came to fore after twin earthquakes hit Türkiye on Feb. 6 - Anadolu Agency
Mehmed II, byname Fatih Sultan Mehmed (Turkish: Sultan Mehmed the Conqueror), (born March 30, 1432, Adrianople, Thrace, Ottoman Empire—died May 3, 1481, Hunkârçayırı, near Maltepe, near Constantinople), Ottoman sultan from 1444 to 1446 and from 1451 to 1481. A great military leader, he captured Constantinople and conquered the territories in Anatolia and the Balkans that constituted the Ottoman Empire’s heartland for the next four centuries. Mehmed was the fourth son of Murad II by Hümâ Hâtûn, an enslaved girl in Murad’s harem. At the age of 12 he was sent, as traditio...
Executive Summary Since Classical times up through the violence of World War I, the issue of control of the Bosporus, Sea of Marmara and Dardanelles—the Turkish Straits, which connect the Black Sea with the eastern Mediterranean—has vexed kings and admirals and led to the rise and fall of empires. When the largest global conflict until that time ended in November …