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The westernmost minaret (maybe): the Ottoman legacy in Croatia

Drniš in epoca ottomana – By Coronelli, Vincenzo (1650.-1718.) - Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0

A minaret in Drniš that the local tourist board calls “the westernmost in the Ottoman Empire” (the map doesn’t entirely agree) is the starting point for a journey through the Ottoman legacy in Croatia: what has survived, what has vanished, and what we still find on our plates. In Drniš, in the hinterland of Šibenik,… Continue reading The westernmost minaret (maybe): the Ottoman legacy in Croatia

A Walk Through Ottoman Salonica

White tower, Thessaloniki © Leandros Papakarmezis / Unsplash

We spoke with Vasiliki Kartsiakli, an archaeologist and co-founder of dot2dot, a Thessaloniki agency designing themed tours of the city, about the traces the Ottomans left in what was, for nearly five centuries, one of the empire’s great cities. Thessaloniki fell to Murad II in 1430, taken from Venetian control in a siege that, Vasiliki… Continue reading A Walk Through Ottoman Salonica