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    Posted: 23-Dec-2011 at 00:10
Note:The topic can expand too much, that why I am not adding clock towers in it .

Towers & Coloums in Istanbul
Galata Tower-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galata_Tower



Maiden's Tower-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C4%B1z_Kulesi
 


Beyazıt Tower-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beyaz%C4%B1t_Tower

                                                
Column of Marcian-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Column_of_Marcian
 

Column of the Goths-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Column_of_the_Goths
 

Column of Constantine-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Column_of_Constantine
 



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  Quote Nick1986 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 23-Dec-2011 at 19:27

We've got a lot of war memorials built to resemble columns. However, one of our oldest monoliths is Cleopatra's Needle in London
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  Quote Ollios Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 23-Dec-2011 at 22:35
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We've got a lot of war memorials built to resemble columns. However, one of our oldest monoliths is Cleopatra's Needle in London


You remind me, obelisks of IstanbulWink

Walled Obelisk-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walled_Obelisk
Obelisk of Theodosius-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obelisk_of_Theodosius


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Istanbul is known as a Turkish city but some of the greatest Turkish buildings are in my city Tehran, because about one thousand years ago it was the capital of Toghrïl Beg, the founder of Seljuq Empire, and his successors.
 
 
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  Quote Nick1986 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 24-Dec-2011 at 19:50
Those Egyptian obelisks certainly got around. Others can be found in France, Poland, Italy and the US
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  Quote Ollios Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 25-Dec-2011 at 05:51
Originally posted by Cyrus Shahmiri

Istanbul is known as a Turkish city but some of the greatest Turkish buildings are in my city Tehran, because about one thousand years ago it was the capital of Toghrïl Beg, the founder of Seljuq Empire, and his successors.


Iran is also the civilization which influenced Seljuq and Oghuz culture the most(like Romans and Greeks), so those building could be built under the Turkic rules, but you can find big similarity between them and Persian architecture.
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  Quote red clay Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 25-Dec-2011 at 11:10
Mokheve, do you have any information about those towers?  It looks as though there are many more in the valley below, and the hills in the background.
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  Quote mokheve Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 25-Dec-2011 at 11:59
  it's caucasian architecture. built by mountain people in 12 century. they  used  towers for live and for battle. they also built tombs on the mountains and temples.   

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  Quote Nick1986 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 29-Dec-2011 at 21:40

I drive past this column on the way home from university. It's a war memorial built in the Classical style
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  Quote Jinit Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 26-Mar-2013 at 13:01
I used to pass by this column called Mana stambh (column of Honour), when I was in school. Mana stambha is common feature of Jain temples however they are rearly as impressive as this one.
 
 
 
 
Huthesingh jain temple with which the column is associated, itself is very impressive temple. It was built in 1850 by the widow of a exremely wealthy merchant of Colonial era. unfortunately photography isn't allowed in the temple. However one can get the idea about the grandiosity of the temple by looking at the entrance only.
 
 
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File:White Tower of Thessaloniki (2007-06-15).jpg

The White Tower, Thessaloniki, Greece. 
The present tower most likely replaced an older Byzantine tower mentioned by the 12th century archbishop Eustathios during the sack of 1185.


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The Seven Towers.
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  Quote Ollios Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 03-Apr-2013 at 03:24
Jinit, it is amazing

Titan, the White Tower is the only structure which I can image, when I heard the name of Salonika

The Clock Tower of the city where I was born.





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