Gorčin Dizdar: Paths of heresy (II) - Mosque of the 12 Apostles | Courtyards anne taylor loft
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Text written by the master and the student doctoral program of interdisciplinary humanities at York University in Toronto. In August 2011th year Giustina with Selvelli, the Master of anthropology with the Venice University, traveled to eastern Turkey, Georgia and Armenia, searching for parallels medieval Armenian and Bosnian visual culture.
In Kars - mud again. The temperature dropped to 13 degrees, pouring rain, the town's main road was completely ruined. At least we are in the center and soon find a hotel "Bizim 2". The road from Van to Kars was an adventure, we had to change trains in Khorasan, anne taylor loft the middle of nowhere anne taylor loft than twenty houses somewhere in northeast Turkey. We only went there and found the main and only "Judd" - all were staring at us, the children anne taylor loft were laughing our apparently meaningless question: "otogar?" Luckily he soon ran into a bus to Kars ... Northeast Turkey offers spectacular landscapes: hundreds of kilometers untouched nature, cows vast size and only occasionally a small village almost completely incorporated with the environment. The only detail that disturbs the idyll is omnipresent Turkish army, which even in the smallest village anne taylor loft has at least a machine-gun nest if not the barracks, so that the entire eastern Turkey acting as a military anne taylor loft zone.
Kars is a city that has gained literary fame as the setting for the novel "Snow" Turkish Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk. Those who have read the novel will not be surprised by the fact that nothing in this town does not indicate success with cotton, the only trace of its presence is the badge "Kars - Nobel City" in a small gift shop. But what is certainly evident is expressed awareness of regional identity: many shops, butchers, kebabdžinice and other establishments bearing anne taylor loft the name "Kafkaz". In the nineteenth century, Kars was under the rule of the Russian Empire, which was very noticeable for its large number of massive Russian neo-classical building completely black. The climate in Kars is different from the rest of Turkey, sharpness winter is visible on the inside of bars and restaurants with a large fireplace and a samovar. Another local character identification - counterpart vanskoj cat - the picture is very, almost unnatural fleshy cows. When we asked about the importance of fleshy cows were told that the herders Bakar end of this specific kind of just a few years ago began to be imported from Germany ...
In Kars was once lived large population of Armenians that almost none. But what we did, it seemed to me, but justified the whole journey: it is the Church anne taylor loft of the Holy Apostles from the X century. anne taylor loft One of the twelve apostles engraved on the walls of the church is practically identical perhaps best known stecak of arm's length with Radimlja near Stolac! The concept of technique and content: engravings Radimlja and the Church of the Holy Apostles as it was carved anne taylor loft by the same hand ... This church has had a turbulent past. Built in the middle of the tenth century, in the twelfth century Seljuk Turks turned it into a mosque, anne taylor loft in the nineteenth century anne taylor loft was again turned into the Armenian Church, then, during the Turkish Republic, has become a museum, it would be twenty years ago - once again became a mosque! During this time, Kars, besides Armenians, Russians and Turks, and Ottoman seldžučkih, more or less ruled by Arabs, Persians, anne taylor loft Greeks, Georgians and Mongols.
Perhaps it is in place at this point briefly to look at the possibilities of interaction medieval Bosnian anne taylor loft and Armenian culture, the reasons for setting these seemingly extravagant hypotheses. Firstly, it is known that many Slavic, but also other people who are in the Dark Ages settled in the Balkans, is descended from the wider Caucasus region, where they could bring certain elements of a common culture. This factor often cited to explain the possible origin of the elements of so-called early Croatian architecture. Moreover, the Armenians have long been known as an extremely capable traders with global connections: when Europeans first came to India and China, there are already existing Armenian merchant colonies. The so-called Macedonian dynasty, which ruled the Byzantine castvom (and therefore the most part of the Balkans) from the ninth to the eleventh century, was the fact of Armenian origin. Within the Ottoman Armenians, the Greeks and the Jews, practically enjoyed state sanctioned trade monopoly. Armenian manuscripts in Thessaloniki, Belgrade, Dubrovnik and other archives prove that the constant Armenian anne taylor loft merchant colonies inhabited the Balkans. Finally, in the seventh century, Armenia was formed heretical sect Pavlićana, by the Byzantine authorities expelled in Thrace, Bulgaria today. There is, as is well known, Pop Bogomil began to preach anne taylor loft Christianity seeing very similar pavlićanskom. Regardless of the interpretation of the ultimate nature anne taylor loft of symbolism stećaks, is indisputable historical fact that at least some followers of the priest Bogomil during the next century found refuge in distant Bosnia ...
The "mosque twelve apostle
News Cultural Heritage History Poetry Prose Essays Topics Health Ecology Party
Text written by the master and the student doctoral program of interdisciplinary humanities at York University in Toronto. In August 2011th year Giustina with Selvelli, the Master of anthropology with the Venice University, traveled to eastern Turkey, Georgia and Armenia, searching for parallels medieval Armenian and Bosnian visual culture.
In Kars - mud again. The temperature dropped to 13 degrees, pouring rain, the town's main road was completely ruined. At least we are in the center and soon find a hotel "Bizim 2". The road from Van to Kars was an adventure, we had to change trains in Khorasan, anne taylor loft the middle of nowhere anne taylor loft than twenty houses somewhere in northeast Turkey. We only went there and found the main and only "Judd" - all were staring at us, the children anne taylor loft were laughing our apparently meaningless question: "otogar?" Luckily he soon ran into a bus to Kars ... Northeast Turkey offers spectacular landscapes: hundreds of kilometers untouched nature, cows vast size and only occasionally a small village almost completely incorporated with the environment. The only detail that disturbs the idyll is omnipresent Turkish army, which even in the smallest village anne taylor loft has at least a machine-gun nest if not the barracks, so that the entire eastern Turkey acting as a military anne taylor loft zone.
Kars is a city that has gained literary fame as the setting for the novel "Snow" Turkish Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk. Those who have read the novel will not be surprised by the fact that nothing in this town does not indicate success with cotton, the only trace of its presence is the badge "Kars - Nobel City" in a small gift shop. But what is certainly evident is expressed awareness of regional identity: many shops, butchers, kebabdžinice and other establishments bearing anne taylor loft the name "Kafkaz". In the nineteenth century, Kars was under the rule of the Russian Empire, which was very noticeable for its large number of massive Russian neo-classical building completely black. The climate in Kars is different from the rest of Turkey, sharpness winter is visible on the inside of bars and restaurants with a large fireplace and a samovar. Another local character identification - counterpart vanskoj cat - the picture is very, almost unnatural fleshy cows. When we asked about the importance of fleshy cows were told that the herders Bakar end of this specific kind of just a few years ago began to be imported from Germany ...
In Kars was once lived large population of Armenians that almost none. But what we did, it seemed to me, but justified the whole journey: it is the Church anne taylor loft of the Holy Apostles from the X century. anne taylor loft One of the twelve apostles engraved on the walls of the church is practically identical perhaps best known stecak of arm's length with Radimlja near Stolac! The concept of technique and content: engravings Radimlja and the Church of the Holy Apostles as it was carved anne taylor loft by the same hand ... This church has had a turbulent past. Built in the middle of the tenth century, in the twelfth century Seljuk Turks turned it into a mosque, anne taylor loft in the nineteenth century anne taylor loft was again turned into the Armenian Church, then, during the Turkish Republic, has become a museum, it would be twenty years ago - once again became a mosque! During this time, Kars, besides Armenians, Russians and Turks, and Ottoman seldžučkih, more or less ruled by Arabs, Persians, anne taylor loft Greeks, Georgians and Mongols.
Perhaps it is in place at this point briefly to look at the possibilities of interaction medieval Bosnian anne taylor loft and Armenian culture, the reasons for setting these seemingly extravagant hypotheses. Firstly, it is known that many Slavic, but also other people who are in the Dark Ages settled in the Balkans, is descended from the wider Caucasus region, where they could bring certain elements of a common culture. This factor often cited to explain the possible origin of the elements of so-called early Croatian architecture. Moreover, the Armenians have long been known as an extremely capable traders with global connections: when Europeans first came to India and China, there are already existing Armenian merchant colonies. The so-called Macedonian dynasty, which ruled the Byzantine castvom (and therefore the most part of the Balkans) from the ninth to the eleventh century, was the fact of Armenian origin. Within the Ottoman Armenians, the Greeks and the Jews, practically enjoyed state sanctioned trade monopoly. Armenian manuscripts in Thessaloniki, Belgrade, Dubrovnik and other archives prove that the constant Armenian anne taylor loft merchant colonies inhabited the Balkans. Finally, in the seventh century, Armenia was formed heretical sect Pavlićana, by the Byzantine authorities expelled in Thrace, Bulgaria today. There is, as is well known, Pop Bogomil began to preach anne taylor loft Christianity seeing very similar pavlićanskom. Regardless of the interpretation of the ultimate nature anne taylor loft of symbolism stećaks, is indisputable historical fact that at least some followers of the priest Bogomil during the next century found refuge in distant Bosnia ...
The "mosque twelve apostle
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