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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Parthenon
The Parthenon is a temple of the Greek goddess Athena, built in the 5th century BC on the Athenian Acropolis. It is the most important surviving building of Classical Greece, generally considered to be the culmination of the development...
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Etc: Colonization of North Western Africa, 1845 1900
Map of Northwestern Africa, subtitled "French Colonization." This map shows the Barbary States of Morocco, Algeria, and a portion of Ottoman controlled Tripoli. The map is color-coded to show the progression of French occupation in...
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Eternal Egypt: Public Fountain of Ruqayya Dudu
This public fountain in Souk Al-Silah Street is believed to be the third public fountain built for a woman in the Ottoman period. It is also the first Ottoman sabil built to a Turkish plan.
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Yavuz Sultan Selim
Click on a time period on the left of your screen and get great information on what happened within the Ottoman Empire during those years. Custom, culture, military achievements, and more are included.
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Kanuni (Lawgiver)
Click on a time period on the left of your screen and get great information on what happened within the Ottoman Empire during those years. Custom, culture, military achievements, and more are included.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Colonial Africa, 1902
A map of Africa in 1902 showing the European colonial possessions established at the Berlin Conference in 1885, and the Turkish or Ottoman possession of Tripoli. This map shows major cities, rivers, and mountain systems, canals and head...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: The Barbary States, 1802 1805
A map of the Mediterranean Sea region showing the Barbary States and southern Europe at the time of the Tripolitan War (First Barbary War - 1801-1804) between the United States and the North African Ottoman Empire regencies. The map...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Political Colonial Africa, 1916
A political map of the African continent in 1916, showing the European territorial claims established at the Berlin Conference in 1885. This map also shows the territorial enclaves of British Walfish Bay in German Southwest Africa,...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Asia, 1903
A map of Asia from 1903 showing country boundaries at the time, major cities, rivers, lakes, terrain, and coastal features. This map shows the extent of the Russian Empire and Turkish Ottoman Empire in Asia, the Empire of Japan and...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Asia, 1912
A map of Asia from 1912 showing country boundaries at the time, foreign possessions, major cities, rivers, lakes, terrain, and coastal features. This map shows the principal railways of the region with connections to Europe. This map...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Asia, 1904
A map of Asia from 1904 showing country boundaries at the time, major cities, rivers, lakes, deserts, terrain, and coastal features. This map shows the extent of the Russian Empire and Turkish Ottoman Empire in Asia, the Empire of Japan...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Asia, 1899
A map of Asia from 1899 showing country boundaries at the time, foreign possessions, capitals and major cities, rivers, canals, lakes, deserts, terrain, and coastal features. This map shows the principal railways and caravan routes of...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Asia, 1916
A map of Asia from 1916 showing country boundaries at the time, major cities, railroads, rivers, lakes, terrain, and coastal features. The map indicates foreign possessions in the region with British India (which included Myanmar or...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Political Asia, 1909
A map of Asia from 1910 showing country boundaries at the time, foreign possessions, major cities, rivers, lakes, terrain, and coastal features. This map shows the extent of the Russian Empire and Turkish Ottoman Empire in Asia, the...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Political Map of Asia, 1919
A map from 1919 of Asia showing the political boundaries at the time. This map shows the extent of the Russian and Ottoman empires in Asia, the British possessions of India, Straits Settlements on the Malay Peninsula, northern Borneo,...
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Europe, 1848 1871
A map of Central Europe between 1848 and 1871 showing Prussia, the German Empire, the French gains in Savoy and Nice, and losses in the Alsace-Lorraine territory, the Austria-Hungary Empire, the Kingdom of Italy, and the Ottoman Empire.
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Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Europe, 1815
A map of Europe highlighting the German Confederacy created by the Congress of Vienna in 1815, the successor to the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation. The confederacy was made up of 39 states including portions of the Austrian...
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Etc: Maps Etc: Europe After the Congress of Vienna, 1815
A color map of Europe after the Congress of Vienna in 1815, which redrew the continent's political boundaries after the French Revolution, Napoleonic Wars, and the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire. This map is color-coded to show...
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Etc: Maps Etc: Europe at the Beginning of the Modern Era, 1792
A map of Europe in 1792 during the French Revolution and the beginning of the Modern Era. This map is color-coded to distinguish between various countries throughout the continent, including Great Britain, France, United Netherlands,...
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Etc: Maps Etc: Europe After the Treaties of Utrecht and Nystad, 1721
A map of Europe in 1721 after the Treaty of Utrecht ending the War of the Spanish Succession, and the Treaty of Nystad ending the Great Northern War between Sweden and the Russians and Danes. The map shows the northern territories of...
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Unesco: Algeria: Kasbah of Algiers
The Kasbah is a unique kind of medina, or Islamic city. It stands in one of the finest coastal sites on the Mediterranean, overlooking the islands where a Carthaginian trading-post was established in the 4th century BC. There are the...
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Unesco: Greece: Old Town of Corfu
The Old Town of Corfu, on the Island of Corfu off the western coasts of Albania and Greece, is located in a strategic position at the entrance of the Adriatic Sea, and has its roots in the 8th century BC. The three forts of the town,...
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Eternal Egypt: School of Sultan Mahmoud
This school is situated in Port Said Street (formerly Al-Khaleeg Al-Masry Street) just before the intersection with Sikkat Rateb Street and Sheikh Rihan Street. The school was built by the Ottoman sultan, Mahmoud Khan Ibn Mustafa Khan....
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Eternal Egypt: Public Fountain of Yusuf Bek
It is not far from the Tuluni Mosque, and is situated on the way that leads to the Mosque in the area of Al-Sayeda Zeinab. This area was one of the most important areas of Cairo, in the Mameluks' and Ottomans' eras. It was the most...