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Mount Bulgurlu and Skutari’s Sacred Resting Places Mount Bulgurlu, towering 850 feet above sea level in Skutari, offers a captivating experience with its panoramic views...

A Journey into the Past Kusgunjuk, the following village, named after Kusgun-baba, a saint who lived during Muhammad II.’s time, is predominantly inhabited by Jews,...

Glimpse into Ottoman Grandeur Selim, it is said, changed his mind after three years. Upon learning from the Bostanji-bashi that his son’s sentence had not...

147. These two friends were John Xiphilinus, a native of Trebizond, who had been appointed Professor of Law (Nomophylax) in the University of Constantinople...

116. In September 1047.117. The army of the East was at this time engaged in Armenia Magna.118. In the part near the monastery of...

105. The protospatharius Pardus owed his appointment as successor to Maniaces not to any outstanding ability but to the fact that he was known...

97. Sclerena was a niece of Pulcheria, sister of Romanus Sclerus and grand-daughter of Bardas. She had shared Constantine’s exile on Lesbos. She was...

86. Herodotus, the famous Greek historian, is said to have beer the son of Lyxes and Dryo, and was born at Halicarnassus in 484...

It is not my purpose at the moment to describe the object of their choice, but I will say that the man chosen was...

While still subject to the limitations of human nature, they behave as though they were demi-gods among us. For the other attributes of Divinity...