Nigar Hanım, the First Turkish Poetress
Nigar Hanım, the first Turkish poetess (1856-1919), who was officially called Nigar bint-i Osman, was a daughter of a Hungarian father and a Turkish…
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The Bertalan Schwarz Room at the University of Istanbul
András Bertalan Schwarz, who worked in Leipzig after studying law in Göttingen and Hungary, was invited to teach at the reorganized University of Istanbul…
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The Museum of Firefighting
Ödön Széchenyi was born as the son of the greatest Hungarian, István Széchenyi in 1839. Later called as Ödön Pasha, he was always known…
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The Tomb of Richárd Guyon
The Haydarpaşa Cemetery (Haydarpaşa Mezarlğı), a military cemetery owned by the British, was founded during the Crimean War (1853-56), and is currently managed by…
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Hungarian Sports Trainers in Istanbul
Zoltán Gulyás (1948-2015) Hungarian water polo trainer had a significant role in Hungarian water polo, but even bigger in Turkey.
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The Bust of İbrahim Müteferrika
İbrahim Müteferrika is the founder of Turkish and Islamic printing. He was the first person to print a book in the Ottoman Empire in…
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Feriköy-Pangaltı (French) Roman Catholic Cemetery
Sultan Abdul-Mejid opened a new cemetery for the Catholics north of the Taksim Square in 1857, beside the Protestant Cemetery, in Pangaltı. From then…
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The Istanbul Antifonale
The codex featuring the songs of Catholic sermons was written in Hungary in the middle of the 14th century. It is one of the…
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Yeniköy Palace – one of the diplomatic buildings of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy
Besides the Palazzo Venezia, the Monarchy also received a summer residency as a present of Sultan Abdulhamid in 1882, the so-called Yeniköy Palace.
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The Mosaic Picture of Saint Piroska
Piroska, the daughter of Saint Ladislaus, king of Hungary and Adelaide from Rheinfeld was probably born in 1084 in Esztergom. She was the wife…
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