A cyclopaedia of works of architecture in Italy, Greece, and the Levant (1895)
Longfellow, William Pitt Preble, 1836-1913 · New York, Scribner's sons · leaf 137
Oothe last races were heldin the Hippodrome, inpresence of the emjieror.and in the decrepit are-na, on the night beforeMay 29. 14.53, Constan-tine PalEeologus gath-ered his shattered troopsfor the last struggle withthe Turks. Mosque of Ahmed,the largest mosque in Constantinople (not holy black… … Fig. 52.—Constantinople, Mosque ol Ahmed. CONSTANIIXOlLI the mosque of stute of the Sultans of Cou-stiintinopU. and contains also the Standardof the Iropliet, which is never unfurledexcept at critical moments iu the historyof the em})ire. Xear by is the tomb ofthe founder. Ahmed 1., who began…
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