Portal:Turkey/Did you know
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- ...that the Mosque of the Rose in Istanbul is so named because on the day of the Fall of Constantinople the building was adorned with garlands of roses?
- ...that SantralIstanbul, an art museum in Istanbul, Turkey, is located in what was the first power station of the Ottoman Empire?
- ...that the Romanian crude oil tanker M/T Independenţa burnt for weeks in 1979 after colliding with a freighter?
- ...that Wilhelm von Pressel designed the first railroad in Turkey?
- ...that the 1621 Battle of Khotyn resulted directly in the death of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth leader, hetman Jan Karol Chodkiewicz, and indirectly in the death of the Ottoman Empire commander, sultan Osman II?
- ...that the Crusade of Varna required simultaneous attacks on the Muslim Ottoman Empire by Christian Hungary and the Muslim Karamanids, which did not occur?
- ...that ten days before the ratification of the Peace of Szeged, Vladislaus, King of Hungary, swore an oath which invalidated it and all future treaties with the Ottoman Empire?
Interesting facts
...that Tarkan and Wyclef Jean, who collaborated on the song Aman Aman for Tarkan's Come Closer album, were actually born on the same day, the same year?
