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13 hours ago · Istanbul. / 41.01361°N 28.95500°E / 41.01361; 28.95500. Istanbul [a] is the largest city in Turkey, straddling the Bosporus Strait, the boundary between Europe and Asia. It is considered the country's economic, cultural and historic capital. The city has a population of over 15 million residents, comprising 19% of the population of ...
- Bosphorus Bridge
The Bosphorus Bridge (Turkish: Boğaziçi Köprüsü), known...
- Column of Constantine
The Column of Constantine (Turkish: Çemberlitaş Sütunu;...
- Most Populous European City
Cityscape of Istanbul. The largest cities in Europe within...
- Names of Istanbul
Byzantion (Ancient Greek: Βυζάντιον, romanized: Byzántion,...
- List of People From Istanbul
Hrant Dink (1954-2007), editor of an Armenian newspaper;...
- Hagia Sophia
Hagia Sophia (lit. 'Holy Wisdom'; Turkish: Ayasofya; Greek:...
- Religion in Istanbul
Istanbul text with Abrahamic religions' symbols. Religion in...
- Maiden's Tower
Maiden's Tower and the Seraglio Point Map of Constantinople...
- Bosphorus Bridge
13 hours ago · Life Omar Khayyam was born in Nishapur —a metropolis in Khorasan province, of Iranian stock, in 1048. In medieval Persian texts he is usually simply called Omar Khayyam. : 658 [c] Although open to doubt, it has often been assumed that his forebears followed the trade of tent-making, since Khayyam means 'tent-maker' in Arabic. : 30 The historian Bayhaqi, who was personally acquainted with ...
13 hours ago · Eric Emerson Schmidt (born April 27, 1955) is an American businessman and former software engineer who served as the CEO of Google from 2001 to 2011 and the company's executive chairman from 2011 to 2015. [1]
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13 hours ago · It is attested in Mycenaean Greek as e-re-pa (genitive e-re-pa-to) in Linear B syllabic script. As in Mycenaean Greek, Homer used the Greek word to mean ivory, but after the time of Herodotus, it also referred to the animal. The word elephant appears in Middle English as olyfaunt (c. 1300) and was borrowed from Old French oliphant (12th century).
13 hours ago · Estonia is situated in Europe, on the eastern shores of the Baltic Sea, on the East European Plain between 57°30′ and 59°49′ N and 21°46′ and 28°13′ E. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, and to the east by Lake Peipsi and Russia.
13 hours ago · C++ Programming at Wikibooks. C++ ( / ˈsiː plʌs plʌs /, pronounced " C plus plus " and sometimes abbreviated as CPP) is a high-level, general-purpose programming language created by Danish computer scientist Bjarne Stroustrup.
13 hours ago · Mentuhotep II [83] Mentuhotep II regained all Egypt c. 2015 BC, Middle Kingdom begins, becomes first pharaoh of Middle Kingdom. 2060–2040 BC [31] (King of Upper Egypt only) 2040–2009 BC [31] (King of Upper and Lower Egypt) Sankhkare. Mentuhotep III [84] Commanded the first expedition to Punt of the Middle Kingdom.
