30 Nisan 2012 Pazartesi

turkey tours awaits you to be discovered.

www.turkeytouradvisor.com awaits you to be discovered. With her natural and historical beauty Turkey is a singular country. A country that lives the benefits of the four seasons due to her geogrhapical position, also contains very different beauties and riches. As a brigdge between the Asia and the Europe, this geography hosted many different civilizations. Civilizations that established both between B.C and A.D have tracks in this geography. In every city that one goes, it’s unavoidable not to see an examples of Roman, Seljuk and Ottoman arcitechture. Even the examples of the Hittite, Lidia, Assyria and Urartu civilizations that existed B.C period, stills maintains their existence and they are in the UNESCO World Heritage List. Nearly all cities has an archeological museum and especially Ankara Musueum of Antolian Civilizations was fulled with the cultural heritages of this civilizations. It’s impossible to you to tell the İstanbul’s, that was the capital the Byzantine and Ottoman Empites, inns, baths, bedestens, palaces, mansions and museums with few sentences. Take the opportunity to see the chinia of İznik, marbles of Kütahya, Silk of Bursa and the Hereke Carpet of Kocaeli within their mainlaind. Turkey is a country of begennings in many ways. For example did you know that the the Santa Clause was from Antalya? Or did you know that that Julius Caesar said his famous proveb, “Veni, Vidi, Vici” (I come, I saw, I conquered) by defeating the Pontus forces in Zile, Tokat. Haven’t you ever heard that the remenants Artemis Temple, which was one of the seven wonder of the world was in the Efes Ancient City Selçuk district in İzmir. Did you know the worlds second subway sysyem was in İstanbul and it’s still active? In order to see these and many like, within their mainland visit the www.turkeytoursadvisior.com .

Hey! Crayz wanderers.

Hey! Crayz wanderers. Come and discover the Hagia Sophia with www.turkeytouradvisior. Hagia Sophia has a very important positon among the ancient buildings that lastet to this era. It’s architecture, greatness, usefullness and the significance for the art history is immense. Haghia Sophia was the greatest church that ever builded in the Byzantine Empire. A place that witnessed many historical events, Hagia Sopita demolished, spoiled for various reasons and even became a pool of blood during the Latin invasion. For these and like reasons church was builded again three times upon the same place. Roman Historians Nikephoros, Theohanes and Leon the Grammerer stresses that the Hagia Sopia was first builded on the time of Constantine the I(324-337) Hagia Sophia was turned into a mosque with the conquest of Istanbul by Mehmed the Conqueror(1451-1481). After the conquest the ruins were repaired and a madrasa(a school for Muslim teology) was constructed near the mosque and therefore it’s service continued. During the time of Sultan Abdulmecid, eight calliagrapihc tablet which was written by Hattat Kazasker Mustafa İzzet efendi, that was long as 7.5 m. was placed on the inner walls of Hagia Sophia. In these tablets, the names of “Allah” “Hz. Muhammed”, Hz. Ömer”, “Hz.Ali”, Hz. Hasan” and “Hz. Hüseyin” was written. Though tablets such like exists in all mosques, the ones in Hagia Sopiha are the greatest calliagraphic tablets in the Islamic world. The 35. verse of the Nuh suresi that written on the middle of the dome is also the work of the same calliographer. As an inspiration source for the Turco-İslamic art, Hagia Sophia from it’s creation to nowadays has served 916 as a church and 481 as a mosque. In 1 February 1935, with the decision of the council of ministers it was turned into a museum. Besides it’s arcitechtural structure Haghia Sopiha olsa takes attention with the frescos and mosaics that within. An advise for you from www.turkeytouradvisior.com. Haghia Sophia cannot be told. You must see it….