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6 unusual facts about Ottoman Turks


Ahmed Vefik Pasha

He wrote the first Turkish Dictionary and is considered to be the first Turkist of Ottoman Turks.

Đetinja

According to the legend which describes how the Đetinja River got its name, the Ottoman Turks in the times when they ruled these lands, once punished the local Užican people by taking their children and brutally throwing them into the river.

Jelveti

Celvetîyye Tariqat or Jelveti is the name of a Sufi order that was founded by "Akbıyık Sultan", a murid of Hacı Bayram-ı Veli in Bursa as "The tariqat of Bayramiyye-î Celvetîyye" and later reorganized by the Turkish saint Aziz Mahmud Hudayi.

Karakoncolos

According to late Ottoman Turkish myth, they appear on the first ten days of Zemheri, 'the dreadful cold', when they stand on murky corners, and ask seemingly ordinary questions to the passers-by.

Sir William Shelley

Of the judge's six brothers, one, John, became a knight of the Order of St John, and was killed in defending Rhodes against the Ottoman Turks in 1522; from another, Edward, who is variously given as second, third, or fourth son, came the baronets of Castle Goring, Sussex (created 1806), and Percy Bysshe Shelley, the poet.

Tsardom of Vidin

Vidin was now the only region controlled by the indigenous Bulgarian population and not the invading Ottoman Turks.


Albrecht von Wallenstein

Wallenstein then joined the army of the Emperor Rudolf II in Hungary, where he saw, under the command of Giorgio Basta, two years of armed service (1604–1606) against the Ottoman Turks and Hungarian rebels.

Arnold von Bruck

One of his songs, Ihr Christen allgleiche, was written on the occasion of the Siege of Vienna in 1529 by the Ottoman Turks.

Eparchy of Zahumlje and Herzegovina

Following the fall of Herzegovina under Turkish rule, the See was frequently moved, finally to settle in Monastery Tvrdoš near Trebinje.

Gabrio Serbelloni

With 300 infantrymen at his command, in 1542 Serbelloni distinguished himself against the Ottoman Turks in the defence of Esztergom.

Guillaume Postel

In 1536, when Francis I sought a Franco-Ottoman alliance with the Ottoman Turks, he sent Postel as the official interpreter of the French embassy of Jean de La Forêt to the Turkish sultan Suleiman the Magnificent in Constantinople.

Helena Palaiologina, Despotitsa of Serbia

After Smederevo fell to the Ottoman Turks on 20 June 1459, Helena left Serbia and fled to the Greek island of Leukas where she converted to Catholicism.

Johann Matthias von der Schulenburg

He was recruited by Venice into the successful defence of Corfu during the 1716 siege against the invading Ottoman Turks; he was decorated by the Serenissima for his outstanding success with a statue and a pension of 5000 ducats a year.

Regalia of Serbia

Together with these is a golden mantle (buckle) of unknown origin which is believed to have been captured by the Serbs from the Ottomans at Brasov.

Roman Catholic Diocese of Ajaccio

Liturgical services are held according to the Greek Byzantine rite in the village of Cargèse, founded in 1676 by the descendants of the Greek aristocrat Stephen Comnenus (Stephanos Comnenos), whom the Ottoman Turks had expelled from the Peloponnesus.


see also

Damal

is on a route across the traditional Silk Road, connecting the Caucasus from Europe to Central Asia and has changed hands many times throughout history, between Medes, Persians, Ancient Romans, Byzantines and finally the Ottoman Turks.

Gentile Bellini

Although Constantinople fell to the Ottoman Turks in 1453, the Greek Byzantine world had a continuing impact upon Venetian art and culture as a number of Greek Christians fled Muslim rule.

Gilbert Clayton

In this role, he worked with many of the people that helped to trigger the Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Turks.

Hermeticism

He conducted his investigations under the protection of the Byzantine podestà during the period of the joint Byzantine and Italian podestà and before the capture of Constantinople by Ottoman Turks in 1453.