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    Saint Mary of the Mongols (full name in Greek: Θεοτόκος Παναγιώτισσα (pr. Theotókos Panagiótissa, lit. "All-Holy Theotokos") or Παναγία Μουχλιώτισσα (pr...
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    and one of the only Byzantine churches in Istanbul that was never converted into a mosque, alongside the Church of Saint Mary of the Mongols, as it was...
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    Fener (category Culture of the Byzantine Empire)
    in the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople in Fener. The Church of Saint Mary of the Mongols viewed from South. The Phanar Greek Orthodox College...
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    of the modern-day Mongols are referred to as Proto-Mongols. Broadly defined, the term includes the Mongols proper (also known as the Khalkha Mongols)...
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    were converted into mosques except the Church of Saint Mary of the Mongols. Hagia Sophia (from the Greek: Ἁγία Σοφία, "Holy Wisdom"; Latin: Sancta Sophia...
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    Maria Palaiologina (category Mongol Empire Christians)
    among the Mongols. After Abaqa's death she became the leader of a Monastery in Constantinople which was popularly named after her as Saint Mary of the Mongols...
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    Istanbul (Not Constantinople) (category The Four Lads songs)
    written on the 500th anniversary of the fall of Constantinople to the Ottomans. The lyrics humorously refer to the official renaming of the city of Constantinople...
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    to the city Hejnał mariacki Problems playing this file? See media help. Saint Mary's Basilica (Polish: Kościół Mariacki) is a Brick Gothic church adjacent...
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    Golden Horn (redirect from The Golden Horn)
    inlet of the Bosphorus in Istanbul, Turkey. As a natural estuary that connects with the Bosphorus Strait at the point where the strait meets the Sea of Marmara...
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    Firman (category Government of the Ottoman Empire)
    One of the most important firmans governing relations between Muslims and Christians is a document kept at the Saint Catherine's Monastery on the Sinai...
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