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Mircan Kaia
Mircan Kaia, alternate spelling Mircan Kaya, is a Turkish singer/songwriter and engineer. Early life and education Kaia was born in 1963 in Artvin, a town in the Black Sea Region in north-eastern Turkey. Her grandparents were Mingrelians who converted to Islam and had moved to the region from Batumi in Georgia. When Kaia was nine years old, her family moved to Istanbul. She had been interested in singing from an early age, and in Istanbul she started taking guitar lessons. When Kaia was 13, her 26-year-old brother died. He had been an engineer, and she decided to study engineering at university. She has a degree in civil engineering from Yıldız Technical University, an MSc in earthquake engineering from Boğaziçi University, and an advanced MSc degree in the structural analysis of historic constructions, for which she received a European Commission Scholarship. For her advanced degree, she carried out research work at the University of Padua, the Technical University of Cata ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Artvin
Artvin (Laz language, Laz and ; hy, Արտուին, translit=Artuin) is a List of cities in Turkey, city in northeastern Turkey about inland from the Black Sea. It is located on a hill overlooking the Çoruh, Çoruh River near the Deriner Dam. It is a former bishopric and (vacant) Armenian Catholic titular see and the home of Artvin Çoruh University. History Artifacts dating back to the Bronze Age and even earlier have been found. The area was part of the kingdom of Colchis and part of the Greater Armenia but was always vulnerable to invasions, first the Scythians from across the Caucasus, then the Muslim armies led by Habib, son of Uthman, Caliph Uthman who controlled the area from 853 AD to 1023 when it was conquered by the Byzantine Empire, Byzantines from the Sac Emirate linked to the Abbasid Caliphate, Abbasids. The Principality of Tao-Klarjeti, Principalities of Tao-Klarjeti arose out of the turmoils of the Arab rule in Georgia, Muslim conquests in the Caucasus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
