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Feridun Ahmed Bey Hamam
The Feridun Ahmed Bey Hamam (, ) is an Ottoman bath which dates from 1571/72 and is located to the north of the Mehmed I Mosque in the central square of Didymoteicho, in northern Greece. Today it stands in poor condition. Description According to Dutch historian and Ottomanologist Machiel Kiel, on the facade of the hamam there used to be an inscription giving the year of construction as 1571/2, as it is mentioned in the account of the Ottoman traveller Evliya Çelebi. Feridun Ahmed Bey was a senior official as well as a man of letters. Feridun built these baths in Didymoteicho, as well as a mosque bearing his name, which was demolished at the beginning of the twentieth century. The hamam had two sections, one for men and one for women with a separate entrance for each. The entrance to the men's bath was from the square and had a grand entrance. The baths ceased to function at the beginning of the twentieth century. Part of the building was demolished in the 1970s, but today the ...
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20120912 Ferinton Ahmet Hamam Didymoteixo Evros Greece Panoramic
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Çelebi Sultan Mehmed Mosque
The Çelebi Sultan Mehmed Mosque (; ), also known as the Bayezid Mosque (Τέμενος Βαγιαζήτ) and the Great Mosque ( or ''Ulu Camii''), is an early 15th-century Ottoman mosque in Didymoteicho, East Macedonia and Thrace, in the far northeast of Greece. Construction The 17th-century Ottoman traveller Evliya Çelebi records that the mosque was begun under Sultan Bayezid I (r. 1389–1402), but after his death at the Battle of Ankara and the turmoil that followed, it was interrupted. Construction was taken up again under Sultan Mehmed I (r. 1413–1421), and the mosque was completed and inaugurated in March 1420, as recorded in the inscription above the main entrance. A second inscription over a side-entrance records the name of the architect Ivaz ibn Bayezid, the builder (donor) Dogan ibn Abdullah and the local ''qadi'', Seyid Ali, who supervised construction. Structure The mosque is a square structure, approximately 30–32m on each side, including the walls. The mosq ...
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Didymoteicho
Didymoteicho ( ) is a town located on the eastern edge of the Evros (regional unit), Evros regional unit of Eastern Macedonia and Thrace, in northeastern Greece. It is the seat of the municipality of the same name. The town (pop. 8,681 in 2021) sits on a plain and located south east of Svilengrad, south of Edirne, Turkey and Orestiada, west of Uzunköprü, Turkey, about 20 km north of Soufli and about 90 km north of Alexandroupolis, Alexandroupoli. The municipality of Didymóteicho has a land area of 565.4 km2 and a population of 16,060 inhabitants. Etymology "Didymoteicho" is the modern Greek form of , ''Didymóteichon'', from , ''dídymos'', "twin" and , ''teîchos'', "wall". The name first appears in 591/592, and most resulted from the refortification of the city under Justinian I (see #First Byzantine rule, below). The corrupted short form ''Dimotica'' or ''Demotica'' or variants thereof are attested in Western languages since the late 12th century (early forms ''Timoticon ...
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Machiel Kiel
Machiel Kiel (born February 28, 1938) is a Dutch professor of art history. Narrow specialist in Ottoman architecture in the Balkans. For more than half a century after the Second World War, he worked on the grounds, restorations and with the Ottoman archives in Sofia, Istanbul and Ankara. He personally researched the Ottoman architecture of the Old Bazaar, Skopje before the 1963 Skopje earthquake The 1963 Skopje earthquake () was a 6.1 moment magnitude earthquake which occurred in Skopje, SR Macedonia (present-day North Macedonia), then part of the SFR Yugoslavia, on July 26, 1963, which killed over 1,070 people, injured between 3,000 an .... References Dutch orientalists Dutch art historians 1938 births Ottoman studies Living people {{Europe-art-historian-stub ...
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Evliya Çelebi
Dervish Mehmed Zillî (25 March 1611 – 1682), known as Evliya Çelebi (), was an Ottoman Empire, Ottoman explorer who travelled through his home country during its cultural zenith as well as neighboring lands. He travelled for over 40 years, recording his commentary in a travel literature, travelogue called the ''Seyahatnâme'' ("Book of Travel"). The name Çelebi#Title, Çelebi is an honorific meaning "gentleman" or "man of God". Life Evliya Çelebi was born in Istanbul in 1611 to a wealthy family from Kütahya. Both his parents were attached to the Ottoman Empire, Ottoman court, his father, Dervish Mehmed Zilli, as a jeweller, and his mother as an Abkhazians, Abkhazian relation of the Grand Vizier of Mehmed IV Melek Ahmed Pasha. In his book, Evliya Çelebi traces his paternal genealogy back to Ahmad Yasawi, the earliest known Turkic poet and an early Sufi mystic. Evliya Çelebi received a court education from Ulama#Ottoman era, the Imperial ''ulama'' (scholars). He may have j ...
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Yeni Hamam
The Yeni Hamam (, meaning "new hamam" in Turkish) is a building dating to the Ottoman period in Thessaloniki, Greece. It was apparently built in the last quarter of the sixteenth century by Khusref Kenkhuda, a property owner in Thessaloniki who probably served as Kehaya (administrator) for the Vizier Sokolou Mehmet Pasha. It functioned as a double bathhouse with separate compartments for men and women, with the usual layout of rooms. Today it is located at the corner of today's Kassandros and Agios Nikolaos streets. History The building ceased to function as public baths following the annexation of Thessaloniki by the kingdom of Greece in 1912, unlike the other hamams in the city which remained open. In 1919 it became property of the Greek public, util 1937 when it was bought by a private person who used it as a warehouse. For many years, a winter cinema operated inside the hamam until the mid-80s, while a summer cinema also operated in its garden. There the organizaztion paral ...
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Oruç Pasha Hamam
The Oruç Pasha Hamam (, from ), also known as the Bath of Whispers () or the Baths of Love is an Ottoman bath dating from around 1398-1399 near the banks of the Erythropotamos river, in Didymoteicho, northern Greece. Today it stands in a very poor state with plant life all over it, although restoration works are planned. History According to Dutch Ottomanologist historian Machiel Kiel, this hamam is among the oldest Ottoman hamams found within the borders of Greece, as it was built between 1398 and 1399, mere decades after Didymoteicho's conquest by Sultan Murad I in 1361. The hamam was open until the early twentieth century, and is now the oldest surviving Ottoman bathhouse in Europe. An agreement was signed on March 14, 2011, between Greece, Bulgaria and the European Union for the promotion of this monument as well as a corresponding bath in Svilengrad, in Bulgaria. Architecture The architecture type of the bath is very common among baths built in Greece, defined by a sq ...
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Ottoman Baths In Greece
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Buildings And Structures In Evros (regional Unit)
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16th-century Architecture In Greece
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