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Monday, January 28, 2013

Shopping Center Capacity

Shopping Center Capacity

Capacity Bakirkoy Shopping Center, the biggest shopping center of the spot defined as 3rd District of Istanbul, serves its visitors as a center of life and shopping. Capacity, which took its place among the select and popular shopping centers of Turkey opened it gates in November, 2007, and has reached aimed customer profile with its genuine peculiarity as of the moment it opened its gates, has been visited by about 63 thousand people daily. So, there is many shopping places to buy clothing, shoes, textile, gift shops and there is many restaurants as well. Also, Bakirkoy is once center area in Istanbul and best way to go there by taxi or you can take a public bus from Taksim Suquare or from Eminonu station. Also, there is another option that you can include in your Istanbul tours itinerary or you can take private shopping tour to go to whole shopping centers or private Istanbul tour.

Shopping Center Capacity

Tuesday, January 8, 2013

St.Irene

St.Irene

Hagia Irene or Hagia Eirene often erroneously rendered in English as St Irene, is a former Eastern Orthodox church located in the outer courtyard of Topkapi Palace in Istanbul, Turkey. It is open as a museum every day except Monday but requires special permission for admission. Turned over to the mosque after the conquest of Istanbul in 1453 for the church there has not been a significant change in structure.

You can visit the St.Irene museum in old city tour at Istanbul

St.Irene

Monday, December 24, 2012

Istanbul Archaeology Museums

Istanbul Archaeology Museums

The Istanbul Archaeology Museums are a group of three archeological museums in Istanbul city, located in the Eminonu, near Hagia Sophia Museum, Topkapi Palace and Blue Mosque. The Istanbul Archaeology Museums are consists of three. Archaeological Museum (in the main building), Museum of the Ancient Orient, Museum of IslamicArt (in the Tiled Kiosk). It houses over one million objects that represent almost all of the eras and civilizations in world history.The museum has a large collection of Turkish, Hellenistic and Roman artifacts.

Archaeology Museum is open everyday that you can visit during your Istanbul tours and you can include on your Old City tour of Istanbul.

Istanbul Archaeology Museums

Istanbul Archaeology Museums

Friday, December 21, 2012

Konya

Konya Tour

Konya was inhabited during the Late Copper Age around 3000 BC. It under the authority of the Hittites around 1500 BC. These were overtaken by the Sea Peoples around 1200 BC. The Phrygians set up their kingdom in central Anatolia in the 8th century BC. Xenophon describes Iconium (Konya) as the last city of Phrygia. The region was overwhelmed by Cimmerian invaders c. 690 BC. It was later part of the Persian Empire, until Darius III was defeated by Alexander the Great in 333 BC. Alexanders empire broke up shortly after his death and the town came under the rule of Seleucus I Nicator. During the Hellenistic period the town was ruled by the kings of Pergamon. As Attalus III, the last king of Pergamon, was about to die without an heir, he bequeathed his kingdom to Rome.

Under the rule of emperor Claudius, the citys name was changed to Claudioconium, and during the rule of emperor Hadrianus to Colonia Aelia Hadriana. The city was filled with refugees from the Khwarezmid Empire fleeing the advance of the Mongol Empire at 1220s, Sultan Alā al-Dīn Kayqubā equipped the town and built a palace on top of the citadel. In 1228 he invited Bahaeddin Veled and his son Mevlana (Rumi), the founder of the Mevlevi order, to settle in Konya. Mevlana, simply as Rumi in English-speaking world, was a 13th-century Persian Muslim poet, jurist, theologian, and Sufi mystic. Iranians, Turks, Afghans, Tajiks, and other Central Asian Muslims as well as the Muslims of the Indians have greatly appreciated his spiritual legacy in the past seven centuries.