https://photoblog-a3l.pages.dev/tags/turkey/ Recent content in Turkey on The Singemonkey Hugo en-us Thu, 05 Dec 2019 19:37:43 +0000 https://photoblog-a3l.pages.dev/posts/2019-12-05-throwback-to-when-greeks-ruled/ Thu, 05 Dec 2019 19:37:43 +0000 https://photoblog-a3l.pages.dev/posts/2019-12-05-throwback-to-when-greeks-ruled/ <p>Throwback to when Greeks ruled Asia Minor. Throwback to when Turkey was a democracy. Throwback to the dawn of the century.</p> https://photoblog-a3l.pages.dev/posts/2018-11-01-tbt-when-the-hagia-sophia/ Thu, 01 Nov 2018 12:54:41 +0000 https://photoblog-a3l.pages.dev/posts/2018-11-01-tbt-when-the-hagia-sophia/ <p>#tbt When the Hagia Sophia (Holy Wisdom) cathedral was built it was the largest church in the Christian world and had the largest dome of any building. After Constantinople was conquered by the Turks (the final end of the Roman Empire) it was converted into a mosque (as Christians did to mosques in Southern Spain too) and the minarets were added. But the original 1st church of the Roman Empire still stands today. And this is what it looked like on a nice day in Istanbul in 2000.</p>