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List Of Missionary Schools In Turkey
The following is a list of missionary schools founded in Turkey, during the Ottoman Empire. The schools listed are either closed or currently following a secular education model, according to the Constitution of Turkey, which outlaws religious education.. American schools * Euphrates College in Harput (1852) * Robert College of Istanbul (1863) * Talas American College in Kayseri (1871) * Central Turkey College in Gaziantep (1874) * Üsküdar American Academy in Istanbul (1876) (Formerly American Academy for Girls) * American Collegiate Institute in İzmir (1878) * Adana American College for Girls (1880) * Anatolia College in Merzifon in Amasya (1886) * Tarsus American College in Mersin (1888) (Formerly St. Paul's College in Tarsus) * International College in İzmir (1891) (Currently used as NATO Allied LANDCOM HQ in Izmir) Austrian schools * St. George's Austrian High School in Istanbul (1882) German schools * Deutsche Schule Istanbul in Istanbul (1868) French schools ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Ottoman Empire
The Ottoman Empire (), also called the Turkish Empire, was an empire, imperial realm that controlled much of Southeast Europe, West Asia, and North Africa from the 14th to early 20th centuries; it also controlled parts of southeastern Central Europe, between the early 16th and early 18th centuries. The empire emerged from a Anatolian beyliks, ''beylik'', or principality, founded in northwestern Anatolia in by the Turkoman (ethnonym), Turkoman tribal leader Osman I. His successors Ottoman wars in Europe, conquered much of Anatolia and expanded into the Balkans by the mid-14th century, transforming their petty kingdom into a transcontinental empire. The Ottomans ended the Byzantine Empire with the Fall of Constantinople, conquest of Constantinople in 1453 by Mehmed II. With its capital at History of Istanbul#Ottoman Empire, Constantinople (modern-day Istanbul) and control over a significant portion of the Mediterranean Basin, the Ottoman Empire was at the centre of interacti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
