The Old Mosque at sunset

The mist starts rising from the river around sundown. You're looking at "Eski Camii" (lit. Old Mosque), built back when the Ottoman architects made mosques with multiple small domes as they hadn't figured out how to make a single dome span a large area. This was my favorite mosque after Selimiye.

Adrianopolis

October 29th 2004
Hitched across rolling fields and afternoon fog through Eastern Thrace to Edirne, less than 20 miles from Bulgaria and Greece. My hitchhiking fortunes have vastly improved since my comparative inexperienced days a month ago. Being offered a ride while not hitching is no longer an uncommon experience, and I don't think I hitched for more than 15 minutes before getting picked up. It may have mor ... read more

Middle East » Turkey » Marmara » Edirne

Modern Turkey was founded in 1923 from the Anatolian remnants of the defeated Ottoman Empire by national hero Mustafa KEMAL, who was later honored with the title Ataturk, or "Father of the Turks." Under his authoritarian leadership, the country adopt... ... read more

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