The transept, in the most general sense, is the transverse unit of a basilical church located between the nave and the apse. Since it did not originate from Roman architecture and was rarely included in church planning, several scholars have attempted to understand whether the transept functioned differently from ordinary basilicas since the beginning of the 20th century. Transept basilicas spread over a wide geographical area during Late Antiquity, between the 4th and the 6th centuries, and ceased to be employed a…
A depiction of a labrys is flanked with an ear motif on either side within tabula ansata on an external orthostat block on the southern cella wall of the Zeus Lepsynos Temple at Euromos in Caria. Although labrys, i.e., double-axe motif is encountered across a vast geography in Antiquity, it is known that this sacred symbol was identified with Zeus especially in Caria. Nevertheless, Zeus of Euromos holds a labrys in one hand and a scepter in the other. This article aims to attain a plausible conclusion through compa…
This study aims to evaluate the 1890 Salonica fire and its effects on the development of the city. Fires caused by natural causes or human error were part of everyday life in Salonica. Small fires were common for everyday life. But when fires grew, the consequences became devastating. The narrow and dead-end streets most affected by the fires were the Jewish quarters in the city center, where wooden houses were located. The existing wooden building stock of these neighbourhoods was the most important cause of the f…
From the 19th century onwards, Tsarist Russia began to dominate a wide area in Turkestan through economic and military incursions. While it carried out commercial activities in the coastal cities and peninsulas in the west and east of the Caspian Sea, it also went on to capture these regions, building military bases at strategic points. One place that the Russians considered of vital importance to capture was Ashuradeh Island. Located in the south of the Caspian Sea, this island, which facilitated access to Iran an…
1768-1774 Osmanlı Rus Savaşı, sonuçları açısından Osmanlı İmparatorluğu için bir dönüm noktasıdır. Çünkü 21 Temmuz 1774’te imzalanan Küçük Kaynarca Antlaşması, Kırım’ın bağımsızlığı ve Osmanlı İmparatorluğu’nun savaş tazminatı ödemesi gibi ağır şartlar barındırmaktadır. Bu bağlamda Küçük Kaynarca Antlaşması, her ne kadar iki devlet arasındaki savaşı bitirmiş olsa da içerdiği belirsizliklerle yeni sorunların çıkmasına temel teşkil etmiştir. Zira Rusya, antlaşmayı gerekçe göstererek, İstanbul dışında konsolosluk açma…
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