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    The Mosque of Alexandroupolis (Greek: Τζαμί Αλεξανδρούπολης, Turkish: Dedeağaç Camii) is an Ottoman-era mosque in the town of Alexandroupolis, Western...
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    Alexandroupolis Mosque Burgas-Alexandroupoli pipeline List of settlements in the Evros regional unit Ethnikos Alexandroupolis Alexandroupolis Airport Thrace...
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  • The construction of mosques in Greece has been documented since the period of the Greek Ottoman Empire. Most of the mosques listed were built in the late...
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    The Suleymaniye Mosque or the Mosque of Suleiman (Greek: Σουλεϊμανιγιέ Τζαμί, Turkish: Süleymaniye Camii) is a former mosque in the city of Rhodes, Greece...
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    - Alexandroupolis) A railway line connects Alexandroupolis with Thessaloniki via Komotini, Xanthi and Drama. Another line connects Alexandroupolis with...
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    Faik Pasha Mosque (Turkish: Faik Paşa Camii, Greek: Τζαμί Φαΐκ Πασά), also known locally as the Imaret of Arta (Ιμαρέτ της Άρτας), is a historical Ottoman...
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    and of Protagoras, a leading sophist) and Sale (near present-day Alexandroupolis). Under the Byzantine Empire, Western Thrace benefited from its position...
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    Edirne (section Mosques)
    was formerly converted into a clock tower that is still standing. Alexandroupolis, Greece Ardahan, Turkey Bat Yam, Israel İzmit, Turkey Kars, Turkey...
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    The Kursum Mosque (Greek: Κουρσούμ Τζαμί, Turkish: Kurşunlu Camii) is a historical Ottoman-era mosque in the town of Kastoria, Western Macedonia, Greece...
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    railway station on the Thessaloniki-Alexandroupoli line, with daily services to Thessaloniki and Alexandroupolis. Xanthi does not have an airport. It...
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  • people. In the western Ghouta region outside Damascus, an airstrike on a mosque in Khan al-Shih kills two. And an explosion attributed to an airstrike at...
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    Uzunköprü, Turkey, about 20 km north of Soufli and about 90 km north of Alexandroupoli. The municipality of Didymóteicho has a land area of 565.4 km2 and a...
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    the city. Evrenos also invested in the city as building camiiye (small mosque), an imaret, bath, and shops outside the city walls, establishing a waqf...
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    the Trajanopolis Baths, just twelve kilometers to the northeast of Alexandroupolis. The monument is a long, rectangular building with external dimensions...
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    produce of Edirne province. However, its trade suffered badly when Alexandroupolis became the terminus of the railway up the river Maritsa. Rhaedestus...
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    eight Christian quarters (mahalla); eight mosques, of which only the city's main mosque, the Osman Shah Mosque built by Mimar Sinan, survives today; four...
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    Feres, Evros (category Alexandroupolis)
    Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Alexandroupoli, of which it is a municipal unit. The municipal unit has an area of...
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    located, on the Thessaloniki-Alexandroupoli Line, with local and regional services to Thessaloniki and Alexandroupolis. Christos Aritzis (born 1984)...
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    government by denying permission to repair or rebuild old mosques or to build new mosques, by denying the right to choose the muftis (this chief religious...
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    Xanthi (56 km (35 miles) east). It is also about 150 kilometers west of Alexandroupoli. Kavala is an important economic centre of Northern Greece, a center...
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    of Kanuni Sultan Süleyman the Island became a vakıf for the Süleymaniye Mosque and its Imaret in İstanbul. During the Ottoman period, it was one of the...
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  • can still be seen as a ruin. Mansur bin Yakup Han is buried in the Ulu Mosque in Malatya. Hamza al-Isfahani wrote about 12,000 musicians from India who...
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    personnel of various ranks had landed in Greece's northeastern city of Alexandroupolis on board a Black Hawk helicopter and claimed political asylum in Greece...
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    the Patriarchal and Synodic Act of 4 September 1928: Metropolis of Alexandroupolis: Anthimos Koukouridis (2004–) Metropolis of Chios, Psara and Inousses:...
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    Athens) A2/E90 W (Kozani, Ioannina, Igoumenitsa) N (Kavala, Xanthi, Alexandroupolis, Turkey) A25 (ΕΟ12)/Ε79 Ν (Serres, Bulgaria) A24 (ΕΟ67) S (Airport...
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    cannon fires a blank shot from the fortress. The Saint Petersburg Mosque, the largest mosque in Europe when opened in 1913, is on the right bank nearby. The...
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    suggest the sixth century) but converted into a mosque during the reign of Sultan Mehmed II. The mosque was repaired several times in the 18th century...
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    line 4 Ruse-Podkova (project for extension through the Makaza pass to Alexandroupolis on the Aegean Sea)/Svilengrad. Stara Zagora Airport is located in the...
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    converted into a mosque when the Greeks left in the exchange of populations in the 1920s. Known today as Buyuk Kilise Camii (Big Church Mosque), the whitewash...
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    thirteen mosques, eight survive, including the Old Metropolis, which had been converted into the Hünkar Mosque, as well as the Orta Mosque, Mendrese Mosque, and...
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