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At the Ottoman Bank Museum: The City Tours Series continues with Rhodes
Our guest speaker this month at the Voyvoda Street City Tours - organized by the Museum in collaboration with the Foundation for the Development of Cultural Awareness - is art historian Hayri Fehmi Yılmaz, whose presentation on Rhodes is scheduled for Wednesday, February 18, at 6:30 p.m.
"Rhodes, the largest of the Dodecanese (meaning, twelve) islands, bears the imprint of
many different civilizations." says Yılmaz. "The Minoans, Dorians, Romans, Saracens, Byzantines and more recently the Knights of Malta and the Ottomans all succeeded one another on this island, so strategically situated at the heart of the Mediterranean trade route. The Rhodians were accomplished seamen and the originators of the Rhodian Sea Law which, starting from the 7th cent. A.D., was applied throughout the Byzantine Empire and later accepted as the lex maritima (maritime law) by Italian cities during the Middle Ages. Although no traces of the famous Colossus of Rhodes - one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World - remain today, the gigantic bronze statue once stood at the entrance of the harbour on Rhodes... After World War II, this typically Mediterranean island, imbued with the culture of so many civilizations, was finally left to Greece."
For more information on this free lecture offered by the Ottoman Bank Museum, please call: (0212) 292 76 05
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