Kuzey Makedonya Kitabeleri
Editor(s)
Prof. Dr. Mehmet Samsakci
x Ertuğrul Karakuş
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Printed Date
2025 -
ISBN
9786084868651 -
Book Series
Akademik Çalışmalar -
Page Count
408 -
Size
21.5 x 30.5 cm -
Printing
DPI Digital Centar
Book Description
The Ottoman civilization left behind more than stone and brick in the heart of the Balkans. It built a legacy of meaning — shaped, refined, and inscribed in words. The mosques, bridges, madrasas, and fountains that still stand across North Macedonia quietly carry the aesthetic sensibility, faith, and way of life of an era long past. The inscriptions carved upon them are not only the memory of architecture but also the echo of a culture, waiting to be read as both historical testimony and hidden treasure. This book gives voice once more to those silent stones by presenting the inscriptions of Ottoman architectural monuments in North Macedonia in four languages — Turkish, Albanian, Macedonian, and English. Each inscription preserves the identity of a building, the grace of a civilization, and the shared memory of a common geography. Prepared in four languages, this volume stands as a multilingual bridge that contributes both to scholarship and to cultural awareness — a rare bond between past and present, between word and stone, between people and place.
