by hadassah | May 7, 2008 | Ottoman Period
The Ottoman star was very much in the ascendant by the time Selim I reached the throne. (“Ottoman” is a corruption of “Osmanli,” the name of the Turkish dynasty founded by the sultan Osman I at the end of the thirteenth century.) Constantinople had fallen to the...
by hadassah | Nov 8, 2023 | Bible and Beyond
Ottoman Conquest, 1517-1699 Highlights- Rebuilding of the Walls of Jerusalem, 1538-1541 King James Bible, 1611 Nicolas Poussin’s Destruction of Jerusalem, 1625-26 The Ottoman star was very much in the ascendant by the time Selim I reached the throne. (“Ottoman”...
by hadassah | Sep 26, 2017 | Presence in the Land
The Pasha of Damascus visits Jerusalem and expels all the Jews living near the Western Wall. Source: http://iloveisrael-lior.blogspot.com/2010/09/first-ottoman-period1517-1769.html
by hadassah | Sep 26, 2017 | Presence in the Land
The Pasha of Damascus visits Jerusalem and expels all the Jews living near the Western Wall. Source: http://iloveisrael-lior.blogspot.com/2010/09/first-ottoman-period1517-1769.html
by hadassah | Sep 26, 2017 | Presence in the Land
The pasha of Jerusalem, Yusuf, oppressed the Jews (and arrest) rabbis for ransoms. Rabbi Meyuchas succeeds in raising the ransom from Jews in Turkey. Source: http://iloveisrael-lior.blogspot.com/2010/09/first-ottoman-period1517-1769.
