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Urban and Architectural Alterations in Elbasan from Ottoman Period to Modernity

Journal of Balkan Studies
This research paper examines the transition of urban spaces and architectural changes in Elbasan, Albania, from Ottoman influence to modernity. By analyzing urban development and architectural styles from both the Ottoman and contemporary periods, the ...
Brunilda Basha, Zafer Sağdiç
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Hunting in the Ghaznavid State: Courtly Culture, Military Practices and Political Power

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Hunting occupied an important place in the royal court culture of the Ghaznavid state (963–1186 CE). Ghaznavid hunting culture developed through the interaction of Turkic‐Islamic political traditions, Persianate models of kingship and local ecological settings. Rather than constituting a fully formalized institution, Ghaznavid hunting practice
Arslan Durdu
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Public buildings in Ottoman Plovdiv

, 2023
<p>Appendix 1.2 Identified buildings from the Ottoman period to the book Ottoman Plovdiv: Space, Architecture, and Population (14th-17th Centuries)</p ...
Boykov, Grigor
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Poetry and Architecture: Cultural Patterns in Ottoman Art

Sanat Tarihi Yıllığı
This study aims to deepen how special kinds of relations are fictionalised in the common world perspective in classical poetry and architecture considered in the Ottoman arts, with the inspiration of Heidegger, who thought that building and dwelling are ...
Fatma Sinem Akbulut
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The Momentum of ‘Developed’: Bodies of Water, Aging Bodies and Malta's Interventions at the UN

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Histories of major powers continue to shape how many scholars conceptualize internationalism. By focusing on Malta's interventions at the UN challenges, this article challenges such narrative. In particular, it examines Arvid Pardo's 1967 petition that the seabed be reconceived and protected as the ‘common heritage of mankind’ and Vincent ...
Brianne Wesolowski
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The Fountains of Korgun, Çankırı: Representations of Rural Heritage in Daily Life

Iconarp International Journal of Architecture and Planning
This study examines the fountains of Korgun (Çankırı) as architectural and socio-spatial components of rural heritage. While Ottoman water architecture has been extensively studied in urban contexts, rural fountains have received limited scholarly ...
Melike Demirtaş, Murat Karademir
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Seizing the Regno: Relics and the Politics of Aragonese Expansion in the Fifteenth‐Century Mediterranean

History, EarlyView.
Abstract On 2 June 1442, Alfonso V of Aragon seized the throne of Naples after twenty years of violence, rivalry and warfare between the houses of Anjou and Trastámara over control of the Italian Regno. Over the span of his sixteen‐year reign, Alfonso used Naples as a tool to build his reputation as a new Roman and Imperial ruler in the Italian south ...
Jessica L. Minieri
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COSMOLOGICAL MARKINGS AND ERASURES: The Political Theology of State‐Led Gentrification and Heritagization

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article investigates the symbolic politics of state‐led gentrification and heritagization, focusing on how these processes serve to ‘glorify’ state power. Drawing on Agamben's political theology, Bourdieu's notion of symbolic power and space, and political heritage studies, we argue that the symbolic politics of state glorification can ...
Wouter van Gent, Tular Sudarmadi, Bakti Setiawan   +2 more
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The Mehmet Khalil Agha Mosque in the Greek city of Drama [PDF]

Shedet, 2014
The paper investigates the Mehmet Khalil Agha Mosque in the Greek city of Drama as a case study highlights the existed Ottoman monuments in Greece; and draws as well the attention to preserve those which in need of restoration among which.
Ahmed Ameen
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Moderate is the New Black: Shifts and Intersections in Saudi Arabia's Domestic and Foreign Policy

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) is undergoing a period of intense changes. Its current stage of transformation has been led by Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MbS) since 2015, seeking to turn the Kingdom into a story of successful governance and one of the leading powers in the Middle East. In hardly understood yet very consequential ways, KSA's
Javier Bordón, David Hernández Martínez   +1 more
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