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The Historic Citadel Of Ankara

Posted on 5/13/2011 at 11:24:12 AM

Hungry for culture lovers, Ankara offers a wealth of attractions, sites of ancient and modern monuments, and archeology, museums and mosques. One of the major sites and attractions, now archeological capital, Ankara Castle, the foundations laid by the Galatians, and then settled by the Romans, who sits in a rocky outcrops leading. Byzantines and Seljuks [...]

Hagia Sophia Combination of Islamic Mosques, Christian Churches and Jewish Temples

Posted on 4/5/2010 at 8:00:51 AM

On 27 December, 537 new Hagia Sophia, consecrated by the Patriarch Menas. It replaces an earlier cathedral was built by Constantius II (337-61) and consecrated in 360. Starting with the front page or the atrium, Constantius II church is a wooden roofed basilica with ship flanked by two or maybe four aisles, each with a [...]