The Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge (Serbian: Мост Мехмед-паше Соколовића, romanized: Most Mehmed-paša Sokolovića) is a historic bridge in Višegrad, over...
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Sokollu Mehmed Pasha (Ottoman Turkish: صوقوللى محمد پاشا, romanized: Sokollu Mehmet Paşa; Serbian Cyrillic: Мехмед-паша Соколовић, romanized: Mehmed-paša Sokolović;...
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The Bridge on the Drina is a historical novel by the Yugoslav writer Ivo Andrić. It revolves around the Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge in Višegrad, which...
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Mosque in Edirne, the Kanuni Sultan Suleiman Bridge in Büyükçekmece, and the Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge in Višegrad, as well as other more modest projects...
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Drina (section Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge)
Commissioned by Grand Vizier Mehmed Paša Sokolović, the historic bridge, that today bears his name, the Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge, is constructed in Višegrad...
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Old Bridge, Mostar Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge Janj forest Vjetrenica Cave The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)...
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the Ottoman-era Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge, a UNESCO world heritage site which was popularized by Ivo Andrić in his novel The Bridge on the Drina. A...
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In addition, the subject of Ivo Andrić's book The Bridge on the Drina, Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge in Višegrad, was constructed by Mimar Sinan, the most...
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The Nışançı Mehmed Pasha Mosque (Turkish: Nışançı Mehmed Paşa Camii) is a late 16th-century Ottoman mosque in Istanbul, Turkey. The mosque is part of...
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playing with them along the Drina River and the town's famous Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge. At age six, Andrić began primary school. He later recounted...
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build an imperial mosque since Selim II (d. 1574), as both Murad III and Mehmed III before him had neglected to construct their own. The mosque was built...
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Sultan (Queen Mother) of Sultan Mehmed III. She ordered the mosque in her capacity as Valide Sultan, two years after Mehmed III's ascension to the Ottoman...
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Andrićgrad is located near the Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and stretches from the bridge up to the confluence of the Rzav...
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Mimar Sinan to create a mosque in memory of his son Şehzade (Crown Prince) Mehmed. Suleiman was so impressed with the ensuing Şehzade Mosque (Şehzade Cami)...
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favorite son Şehzade Mehmed (born 1521) who died in 1543 while returning to Istanbul after a victorious military campaign in Hungary. Mehmed was the eldest...
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of Yugoslavia during AVNOJ; Višegrad, the UNESCO site of the Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge; Slatina, a famous spa resort with unpolluted nature, fresh air...
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Sokollu Mehmed Pasha Mosque (Turkish: Sokollu Mehmet Paşa Camii) is a 16th-century Ottoman mosque in the Kadırga neighborhood in Fatih district, Istanbul...
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administrators such as Ferhad Pasha Sokolović and Osman Gradaščević; and Grand Viziers such as the influential Sokollu Mehmed Pasha and Damat Ibrahim Pasha...
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Venice commissioned from Palladio and construction begins. 1577 – Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge over the Drina at Višegrad in the Ottoman Empire, designed by...
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inhabitants of the Scottish island of Eigg, by the Clan MacLeod. Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge over the Drina in Višegrad is completed in the Ottoman Empire...
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Green Mosque, Bursa (redirect from Complex of Mehmed I)
arts vizier Hacı İvaz Pasha, who had been a commander under Mehmed I. Upon his death, Mehmed I was buried in a mausoleum called the Green Tomb, commissioned...
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Hospitals Complex of Sultan Bayezid II Bridges Arslanagić Bridge Mostar Bridge Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge Uzunköprü Bridge Fortifications Ajyad Fortress Anadoluhisarı...
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site in 1458 by the Ottoman sultan Mehmed II only five years after the conquest of Constantinople in 1453. Mehmed II was reportedly motivated to build...
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Court flanked by two towers, dates to the time of Mehmed II. Within the outer gardens of the palace, Mehmed II commissioned three pavilions built in three...
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went on to burn the mosque that same year and that the Qaramanid ruler Mehmed Bey did so again during a siege of the city in 1412. Whatever the case,...
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people. As Sokollu Mustafa Pasha was the nephew of Grand Vizier Sokollu Mehmed Pasha, Rudas baths echoes the design and dimensions of similar monumental...
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1861 and 1865, it is now situated immediately north of the first Bosphorus Bridge. It was the last place where Sultan Abdulhamid II was under house arrest...
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Višegrad massacres (section Bridge murders)
the famous Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge, as well as the new one. Day after day, truckloads of Bosniak civilians were taken down to the bridge and riverbank...
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Fatih Mosque, Istanbul (category Mehmed the Conqueror)
design. It is named after the Ottoman sultan Mehmed the Conqueror, known in Turkish as Fatih Sultan Mehmed, who conquered Constantinople in 1453. The Sahn-ı...
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Bridge". "Mehmed Paša Sokolović Bridge". "Šeher-Ćehaja Bridge". "Perovic most". "Goat's Bridge". "Kriva Bridge". "Old Konjic Bridge". "Latin Bridge"...
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