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Thomas Hope Capuchin Convent & Lantern of Demosthenes at Athens (click to enlarge) Several weeks ago Pierre MacKay wrote about his di...

--> --> Evliya Çelebi visited Nauplion -- Anapli -- in 1668, at the end of his tour of the Morea.  He loved travel, but he ha...

In his inimitable style, Evliya tells us how Osman Ş ah' s mosque came to be: True, it is rather small, but it is a remarkable, fine and...

If you are a Turk, the Greek Palia-Patras, Old Patras (not to be confused with New Patras near Thermopylae) sounds like Bali-Batra, which me...

Evliya Celebi learned this when he was visiting Patras in 1668: Sari Sadik Baba is visited by the Greek infidels too, for they say that ...