The Tomb of Richárd Guyon
The Haydarpaşa Cemetery (Haydarpaşa Mezarlğı), a military cemetery owned by the British, was founded during the Crimean War (1853-56), and is currently managed by…
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Feriköy-Pangaltı (French) Roman Catholic Cemetery
Sultan Abdul-Mejid opened a new cemetery for the Catholics north of the Taksim Square in 1857, beside the Protestant Cemetery, in Pangaltı. From then…
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The Istanbul Antifonale
The codex featuring the songs of Catholic sermons was written in Hungary in the middle of the 14th century. It is one of the…
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The Historical Building of the Transylvanian Ambassadors in Istanbul
John I of Hungary was in continuous contact with the Sublime Porte starting in 1527, and his fights against the Habsburg side were supported…
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The Mosaic Picture of Saint Piroska
Piroska, the daughter of Saint Ladislaus, king of Hungary and Adelaide from Rheinfeld was probably born in 1084 in Esztergom. She was the wife…
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Yeniköy Palace – one of the diplomatic buildings of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy
Besides the Palazzo Venezia, the Monarchy also received a summer residency as a present of Sultan Abdulhamid in 1882, the so-called Yeniköy Palace.
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Hungarian Tombs of the German Military Cemetery in Tarabya
The first Austro-Hungarian artillery units arrived in the Ottoman Empire in the fall of 1915. These forces were used first in the Battle of…
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National Reassurance Building
Sándor Hadi was born in 1931 in the Black Sea-region city of Kastamonu to Hungarian parents working as engineers in Turkey. He graduated from…
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The Turkish-Hungarian Friendship Park in Pendik
Due to the sister city relations between the Pendik district of Asian-side Istanbul and Kispest district of Budapest, the Mustafa Kemal Atatürk Park was…
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Aladár Kovách – Founder of Turkish Emergency Services
Aladár Kovách (1866-1922) was a doctor with extensive international experiences and a key figure in the establishment of Hungarian emergency services.
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