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Ollios
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Topic: Towers & Coloums in Your City Posted: 23-Dec-2011 at 00:10 |
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Nick1986
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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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Ollios
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Posted: 23-Dec-2011 at 22:35 |
Originally posted by Nick1986
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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You remind me, obelisks of Istanbul
Walled Obelisk- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walled_Obelisk
Obelisk of Theodosius- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obelisk_of_Theodosius
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Posted: 24-Dec-2011 at 14:36 |
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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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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Ollios
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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.
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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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Posted: 25-Dec-2011 at 08:33 |
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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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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.
Edited by mokheve - 25-Dec-2011 at 12:01
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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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Posted: 25-May-2012 at 05:16 |
Ruins of ancient Roman tower (burg, pirg) near Burgas, Bulgaria
Reconstruction of the tower - 3d
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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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Posted: 27-Mar-2013 at 08:00 |
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.
Edited by TITAN_ - 27-Mar-2013 at 08:04
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Posted: 27-Mar-2013 at 08:12 |
The Seven Towers.
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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.
Edited by Ollios - 03-Apr-2013 at 05:19
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