Envâr-ı Zekâ (magazine)
The journal ''Envâr-ı Zekâ'' (meaning ''Lights of Intelligence'' in English) was published between 1883 und 1885 (in the original between 1299 and 1302) by the Ebüzziya Printing House by the writer Mustafa Reşid in a total of 34 issues. The magazine defined itself as a "biweekly journal addressing everything but politics". According to the editor, the journal was published every fifteen days, whereby the publication dates of the issues remain uncertain. ''Envar-i Zeka'' is one of the magazines that witnessed the literary activities of the artists of intergeneration (ara nesil). It contains the works of Tanzimat artists and has a large staff of authors. Within the Turkish literature, its translation activities gained high importance. Besides literary, philosophical and scientific translations from German, French and English, one of the special features of this journal is one of the first examples of prose poetry and poetry in Turkish literature following the Tanzimat ...
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Ottoman Empire
The Ottoman Empire, * ; is an archaic version. The definite article forms and were synonymous * and el, Оθωμανική Αυτοκρατορία, Othōmanikē Avtokratoria, label=none * info page on book at Martin Luther University) // CITED: p. 36 (PDF p. 38/338) also known as the Turkish Empire, was an empire that controlled much of Southeast Europe, Western Asia, and Northern Africa between the 14th and early 20th centuries. It was founded at the end of the 13th century in northwestern Anatolia in the town of Söğüt (modern-day Bilecik Province) by the Turkoman tribal leader Osman I. After 1354, the Ottomans crossed into Europe and, with the conquest of the Balkans, the Ottoman beylik was transformed into a transcontinental empire. The Ottomans ended the Byzantine Empire with the conquest of Constantinople in 1453 by Mehmed the Conqueror. Under the reign of Suleiman the Magnificent, the Ottoman Empire marked the peak of its power and prosperity, as well a ...
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