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After the fall of Constatinople, the Ottoman Empire came to dominate the whole of the Eastern Mediterranean and North Africa. In 1550 Sultan Suleyman I - known in the west as 'The Magnificent' comm...issioned his architect Sinan to design a mosque complex - The Suleymaniye, on a scale greater than anything built since Roman times.
After the fall of Constatinople, the Ottoman Empire came to dominate the whole of the Eastern Mediterranean and North Africa. In 1550 Sultan Suleyman I - known in the west as 'The Magnificent' comm...issioned his architect Sinan to design a mosque complex - The Suleymaniye, on a scale greater than anything built since Roman times.
| Module code and title: | A205, "Culture and belief in Europe, 1450-1600" |
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| Item code: | A205; 15 |
| First transmission date: | 1990 |
| Published: | 1990 |
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| Duration: | 00:24:22 |
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| Producer: | Charles Cooper |
| Contributor: | Godfrey Goodwin |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Keyword(s): | Byzantium; Constantinople; Istanbul; Moslem architecture; Ottoman Empire; Suleymaniye |
| Subject terms: | Islamic architecture--Turkey--Istanbul; Architecture, Ottoman--Turkey--Istanbul; Sülimaniye Camii (Istanbul, Turkey); Istanbul (Turkey) --Buildings, structures, etc |
| Master spool number: | HOU6464 |
| Production number: | FOUA297P |
| Videofinder number: | 3504 |
| Available to public: | no |
