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    bragged that "it has been [the Sultan's] intention to erect a bridge from Galata (Pera) to Stambul… across the Golden Horn (‘Haliç’), but this has not been...
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    administrative Qanun, i.e., laws, a system based upon the Turkic Yassa and Töre, which were developed in the pre-Islamic era. These court categories were...
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    Mevlevi Order of Sufi Whirling Dervishes and entered into the order at the Galata Mevlevihanesi under the name ″Selim Dede". He was a renowned composer, creating...
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    Odeabank'ta". galatasaray.org (in Turkish). 30 June 2016. Retrieved 30 June 2016. "Galata potvrdila: Krstićev ugovor raskinut". mondo.rs (in Serbian). 9 September...
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    from outside, the "Genoese, Venetians and those who came secretly from Galata to help the defense", who numbered "hardly as many as three thousand", amounting...
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    the night of 3/4 July 1917, the Handley Page was used for an attack on Galata air base but the engines overheated and the crew turned back, jettisoning...
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  • Elizondo Epi Joseba Etxeberria Miguel Ángel Fuentes Agustín Gajate Marcelino Gálatas Gaztelu Ion Andoni Goikoetxea Alberto Górriz Iñigo Idiakez Santiago Idígoras...
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    series of tracks, constructed on Mehmed's orders, across the hill behind Galata, the Genoese colony on the opposite side of the Golden Horn. Although the...
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    of the news brought by Cesarini, as were the Genoese colonies and Pera (Galata). Cyriacus also distributed letters to Neapolitan nobility and to Alfonso...
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