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Ephesus (Ancient Greek Ἔφεσος, Ephesos; Turkish Efes) was an ancient Greek city, too after a major Roman city, on the due west coast of Asia Minor, nigh present-day Selçuk, Izmir Province, Turkey. It was i of the twelve cities of the Ionian League during the Classical Greek era. In the Roman period, it was for many years the instant largest metropolis of the Roman Empire; ranking behind Rome, the empire's capital. Ephesus had a population of to a greater extent than than 250,000 inward the 1st century BC, which besides made it the instant largest metropolis inward the world. Site of the Temple of Artemis inward the town of Selçuk, nigh Ephesus The metropolis was famed for the Temple of Artemis (completed some 550 BC), i of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. The temple was destroyed inward 401 AD yesteryear a mob led yesteryear St. John Chrysostom. Emperor Constantine I rebuilt much of the metropolis too erected novel populace baths. The town was i time again partially destroye...

Sultan Ahmed Mosque The Sultan Ahmed Mosque (Turkish: Sultanahmet Camii) is a historical mosque inwards Istanbul, the largest metropolis inwards Turkey as well as the uppercase of the Ottoman Empire (from 1453 to 1923). The mosque is popularly known every bit the Blue Mosque for the blueish tiles adorning the walls of its interior. Old photograph of the Blue Mosque, taken earlier 1895 It was built betwixt 1609 as well as 1616, during the dominion of Ahmed I. Like many other mosques, it too comprises a tomb of the founder, a madrasah as well as a hospice. While notwithstanding used every bit a mosque, the Sultan Ahmed Mosque has too expire a pop tourist attraction. Courtyard of the mosque, at dusk time After the Peace of Zsitvatorok (1606) as well as the unfavourable final result of the wars amongst Persia, Sultan Ahmed I decided to build a large mosque inwards Istanbul every bit recompense. This would endure the outset purplish mosque to endure built inwards to a greater extent than th...

Hagia Sophia Hagia Sophia is a onetime Orthodox patriarchal basilica, later a mosque, as well as straight off a museum inwards Istanbul, Turkey. From the appointment of its dedication inwards 360 until 1453, it served every bit the Greek Patriarchal cathedral of Constantinople, except betwixt 1204 as well as 1261, when it was converted to a Roman Catholic cathedral nether the Latin Patriarch of Constantinople of the Western Crusader established Latin Empire. Lustration urn from Pergamon The edifice was a mosque from 29 May 1453 until 1931, when it was secularized. It was opened every bit a museum on 1 Feb 1935. Interior thought of the Hagia Sophia, showing Islamic elements on the piece of occupation yesteryear of the principal dome   The Church was dedicated to the Logos, the minute individual of the Holy Trinity,[2] its dedication feast taking house on 25 December, the anniversary of the incarnation of the Logos inwards Christ. Although it is sometimes referred to every bit Sanct...