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Ahmed III Mosque, the Glossary

The Ahmed III Mosque (Τζαμί τουΑχμέτ Γ΄), also known as the Acrocorinth Mosque (Τζαμί της Ακροκορίνθου) or the Ahmed Pasha Mosque (Ahmet Paşa Camii), is an Ottoman mosque located in the fortress of the Acrocorinth, in the Peloponnese, Greece.^[1]

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18th-century architecture in Greece
Buildings and structures in Corinthia
Mosques completed in the 1710s
Ruins in Greece

Acrocorinth

Acrocorinth (Ακροκόρινθος, 'Upper Corinth' or 'the acropolis of ancient Corinth') is a monolithic rock overlooking the ancient city of Corinth, Greece.

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Ahmed III

Ahmed III (احمد ثالث., Aḥmed-i sālis; 30 December 16731 July 1736) was sultan of the Ottoman Empire and a son of sultan Mehmed IV (r. 1648–1687).

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Alexandria

Alexandria (الإسكندرية; Ἀλεξάνδρεια, Coptic: Ⲣⲁⲕⲟϯ - Rakoti or ⲁⲗⲉⲝⲁⲛⲇⲣⲓⲁ) is the second largest city in Egypt and the largest city on the Mediterranean coast.

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Athens

Athens is the capital and largest city of Greece.

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Berlin

Berlin is the capital and largest city of Germany, both by area and by population.

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Bibliotheca Alexandrina

The Bibliotheca Alexandrina (Latin, 'Library of Alexandria'; Maktabat al-’Iskandariyya) (BA) is a major library and cultural center on the shore of the Mediterranean Sea in Alexandria, Egypt.

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Corinth

Corinth (Kórinthos) is a municipality in Corinthia in Greece.

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Corinthia

Corinthia (Korinthía) is one of the regional units of Greece.

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Evliya Çelebi

Dervish Mehmed Zillî (25 March 1611 – 1682), known as Evliya Çelebi (اوليا چلبى), was an Ottoman explorer who travelled through the territory of the Ottoman Empire and neighboring lands during the empire's cultural zenith.

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Friday prayer

In Islam, Friday prayer, or Congregational prayer (translit) is a community prayer service held once a week on Fridays.

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Gennadius Library

The Gennadius Library (Γεννάδειος Βιβλιοθήκη), also known as the Gennadeion, is one of the most important libraries in Greece, with over 110,000 volumes on Greek history, literature and art from Antiquity until modern times.

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Greece

Greece, officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe.

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Gulf of Corinth

The Gulf of Corinth or the Corinthian Gulf (Korinthiakós Kólpos) is a deep inlet of the Ionian Sea, separating the Peloponnese from western mainland Greece.

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Hellenic Open University

The Hellenic Open University (HOU; Greek: Ελληνικό Ανοικτό Πανεπιστήμιο) was founded in 1992 in Patras and is the only online/distance learning university in Greece.

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Islam

Islam (al-Islām) is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion centered on the Quran and the teachings of Muhammad, the religion's founder.

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Islam in Greece

Islam in Greece is represented by two distinct communities; Muslims that have lived in Greece since the times of the Ottoman Empire (primarily in East Macedonia and Thrace) and Muslim immigrants that began arriving in the last quarter of the 20th century, mainly in Athens and Thessaloniki.

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Kingdom of the Morea

The Kingdom of the Morea or Realm of the Morea (Regno di Morea) was the official name the Republic of Venice gave to the Peloponnese peninsula in southern Greece (which was more widely known as the Morea until the 19th century) when it was conquered from the Ottoman Empire during the Morean War in 1684–99.

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Lion of Saint Mark

The Lion of Saint Mark, representing Mark the Evangelist, pictured in the form of a winged lion, is an aspect of the Tetramorph.

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List of former mosques in Greece

This is a list of former mosques in Greece. Ahmed III Mosque and list of former mosques in Greece are former mosques in Greece and Ottoman mosques in Greece.

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List of mosques in Greece

The construction of mosques in Greece has been documented since the period of the Greek Ottoman Empire.

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Mehmed II

Mehmed II (translit; II.,; 30 March 14323 May 1481), commonly known as Mehmed the Conqueror (lit; Fâtih Sultan Mehmed), was twice the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from August 1444 to September 1446 and then later from February 1451 to May 1481.

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Mihrab

Mihrab (محراب,, pl. محاريب) is a niche in the wall of a mosque that indicates the qibla, the direction of the Kaaba in Mecca towards which Muslims should face when praying.

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Ministry of Culture and Sports (Greece)

The Ministry of Culture (Υπουργείο Πολιτισμού) is the government department of Greece entrusted with preserving the country's cultural heritage, promoting the arts, and overseeing sport through the subordinate General Secretariat for Sports.

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Mosque

A mosque, also called a masjid, is a place of worship for Muslims.

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Muqarnas

Muqarnas (مقرنص; مقرنس, or translit), also known in Iberian architecture as Mocárabe (from), is a form of three-dimensional decoration in Islamic architecture in which rows or tiers of niche-like elements are projected over others below.

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Ottoman Empire

The Ottoman Empire, historically and colloquially known as the Turkish Empire, was an imperial realm centered in Anatolia that controlled much of Southeast Europe, West Asia, and North Africa from the 14th to early 20th centuries; it also controlled parts of southeastern Central Europe, between the early 16th and early 18th centuries.

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Ottoman Greece

The vast majority of the territory of present-day Greece was at some point incorporated within the Ottoman Empire.

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Ottoman reconquest of the Morea

The Ottoman reconquest of the Morea took place in June–September 1715, during the Seventh Ottoman–Venetian War.

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Patras

Patras (Pátra; Katharevousa and Πάτραι; Patrae) is Greece's third-largest city and the regional capital and largest city of Western Greece, in the northern Peloponnese, west of Athens.

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Peloponnese

The Peloponnese, Peloponnesus (Pelopónnēsos) or Morea (Mōrèas; Mōriàs) is a peninsula and geographic region in Southern Greece, and the southernmost region of the Balkans.

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Republic of Venice

The Republic of Venice, traditionally known as La Serenissima, was a sovereign state and maritime republic with its capital in Venice.

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Rhys Carpenter

Rhys Carpenter (August 5, 1889 – January 2, 1980) was an American classical art historian and professor at Bryn Mawr College.

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Springer Science+Business Media, commonly known as Springer, is a German multinational publishing company of books, e-books and peer-reviewed journals in science, humanities, technical and medical (STM) publishing.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_III_Mosque

Ahmed III Mosque, the Glossary

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18th-century architecture in Greece

Buildings and structures in Corinthia

Mosques completed in the 1710s

Ruins in Greece

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