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" Bursa, art and architecture - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE "
Kuban, Doğan
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AL
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English
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1061173
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ALei1570
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Kuban, Doğan
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Bursa, art and architecture - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE\ Kuban, Doğan
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Leiden: Brill
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Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
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(2,385 words)
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Bursa , in northwest Anatolia (Illustration 1), was the first capital of the Ottoman Empire, from 726–66/1326–65. The period from the eighth/fourteenth to the ninth/fifteenth century, the most important in the city’s history, was also the most important in terms of its art and architecture . During that time a number of successive sultans built architectural complexes (often called külliyye or ʿimāret ) in undeveloped parts of the city, which then became the nuclei of new quarters, a process that made Bursa the model for early Ottoman
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Islam.
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ALei1570.pdf
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