Nilüfer Hatun Imareti
Nilüfer Hatun Imareti (Turkish for "Nilüfer Hatun Soup Kitchen"), a convent annex hospice for dervishes, now housing the Iznik Museum in İznik, Bursa Province, Turkey. This elegant building was erected in 1388 for Murat I who dedicated it to his mother. When Orhan Gazi was off on campaign Nilüfer acted as his regent, the only woman in Ottoman history who was ever given such power. During Murad's reign she was recognized as Valide Sultan, or Queen Mother, the first in Ottoman history to hold this title, and when she died she was buried beside Orhan Gazi and his father Osman Gazi in Bursa. The Muslim traveler Ibn Battuta, who visited Iznik in the 1330s, was a guest of Nilüfer Hatun, whom he described as 'a pious and excellent woman'. Architecture The Imaret is built in single courses of stone alternating with four courses of bricks, its vaults and domes covered with ceramic tiles. The building is preceded by an open ended porch of five bays, with five arches in front and ...
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Cami Ve Müze
A camisole, often shortened to cami, is a woman's undergarment which covers the top part of the body. Cami or CAMI may also refer to: * Cami Dalton (21st century), American romance novelist * Nicolas Camí (born 1981), French footballer * Cami Lake, on the main island of the Tierra del Fuego archipelago, shared by Argentina and Chile * Civil Aerospace Medical Institute, part of the United States government * CAMI Automotive, a Canadian automobile manufacturing company * Columbia Artists Management, a talent management agency {{disambig, given name, surname ...
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