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Cyrus Shahmiri
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Topic: Statues of Great Kings and Emperors Posted: 26-May-2005 at 07:09 |
Statue of Shapur I in Bishapur: (as large as a three-storey apartment)
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Posted: 26-May-2005 at 07:39 |
Alexander the Great
Mithridates the "Eupator"
Pyrrhus of Epirus
Seleukos 'Nikator'
Lycimachos of Thrace
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Posted: 26-May-2005 at 07:44 |
Demetrios Poliorketes
Ptolemy 'Philometor'
Antiochos I
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Posted: 27-May-2005 at 12:20 |
Statue of Karamanolu Mehmet Bey in Konya...
He wasnt a great king or emperor, he was just the bey of Karamanoglu, but he is my hero...
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Posted: 28-May-2005 at 16:05 |
BUT he is the man who made Turkish the official language of his fiefdom.(Are you from Konya Ouzolu?)
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Posted: 28-May-2005 at 16:21 |
My origins are.. from Konya "uzunlar" great grandfather was a bey known also for his 2m height
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Posted: 28-May-2005 at 16:26 |
Originally posted by Gazi
BUT he is the man who made Turkish the official language of his fiefdom.(Are you from Konya Ouzolu?) |
Absolutely correct, I am from Konya, and also my family is. He opposed to the Seljuk tradition of governmental writings being mostly in Persian, and he always supported the idea of using Turkish everywhere, and also in the palace...
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Posted: 30-May-2005 at 21:57 |
Attila,Hun's king
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Posted: 01-Jun-2005 at 14:42 |
Originally posted by baracuda
My origins are.. from Konya "uzunlar" great grandfather was a bey known also for his 2m height |
OMG, youre then a far cousin or family of me?? My grandfather whas moved from Uzunlar to Afyon/bolvadin/zburun (avsarky) People there called them Uzunlar, because they were big heighty people 4 of my uncles + my grandfather are greater then 2.m, me just 1.84
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Posted: 03-Jun-2005 at 16:07 |
Amir Timur Monument
Tashkent, Uzbekistan
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Posted: 11-Jun-2005 at 00:43 |
Statue of El Cid (in Spain, forgot which city); good guy or bad guy, depending on who's side you were on (as is the case with almost anyone).
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Posted: 11-Jun-2005 at 07:12 |
King Leonidas
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--- Joseph Alexandrovitch Brodsky, 1991, Russian-American poet, b. St. Petersburg and exiled 1972 (1940-1996)
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Posted: 13-Jun-2005 at 07:36 |
Nader Shah: Considered the Iranian Napoleon.
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Posted: 13-Jun-2005 at 07:40 |
Khosrow Parviz:
This relief is 1.5 x life size.
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Posted: 13-Jun-2005 at 07:42 |
Ardashir I
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Posted: 13-Jun-2005 at 07:44 |
Shapur II
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Posted: 13-Jun-2005 at 07:47 |
Shahpur Capturing Valerian and making Phillip the Arab tributory and some idiot standing on it:
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Posted: 13-Jun-2005 at 07:55 |
CONSTANTINOS PALEOLOGOS
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"There is no doubt, that Macedonians were Greeks."
(Robin Lane Fox "Historian-Author" In Interview with newspaper TO BHMA)
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Posted: 13-Jun-2005 at 08:23 |
The statue of Oguz Khan, Turkmenistan...
The had of Kul Tegin, western Mongolia...
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Posted: 13-Jun-2005 at 08:38 |
Reliquary of Saint Ladislaus of Hungary:
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