Description
Archaeologist Tuncer Bagıskan has over a period of many years researched and collected from many sources documents, photos, architectural plans, inscriptions to realize this new volume of precious information on buildings and structures of the Ottoman period and after. A work which gives the interested reader all detailed information on architecture, dates, legends and the inscriptions – often in Ottoman language cut into stone – on monuments listed here:
Tekkes, Mosques, Mescits (small mosques), Votive Sites, Cemetries and Gravestones, Khans (Caravansarays), Bathhouses (Hamams), Public Squares and City Gates of Nicosia, Libraries and Religious Schools (Medresses) and the Bedestan; Houses and other buildings, prisons and castles, Chains of wells, bridges and Aqueducts, fountains.
At the end of the book there is a most interesting bibliography listing all the writers and scientific works on the subject the author is referring to.
650 pages / 24 x 29 cm / English
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