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The panorama of the Marmara Sea Walls by Dimitriadis Efendi. Texts & The Panorama.= Dimitriadis Efendi'nin Marmara Sahil Surlari panoramasi. Yazilar & Panorama. Foreworded by Zeynep Kiziltan. Preface by Engin Akyürek. Texts by Üzeyir Altekin, Nisa Semiz.

2019 — New English In one slip-case, two volumes set: One is HC, One is PB. 4to. (29 x 22 cm). Parallel text in English and Turkish. 2 volumes set: (93, [1] p.; 1 folded huge reprinted color panorama). The panorama of the Marmara Sea Walls by Dimitriadis Efendi. Texts & The Panorama.= Dimitriadis Efendi'nin Marmara Sahil Surlari panoramasi. Yazilar & Panorama. Foreworded by Zeynep Kiziltan. Preface by Engin Akyürek. Texts by Üzeyir Altekin, Nisa Semiz. "The 28-metre-long depiction of Marmara Sea Walls, rendered in watercolour by the Istanbulite Chief Engineer Dimtriadis Effendy in 1875, has been preserved at he Istanbul Archaeological Museums since it was donated to Müze-i Hümâyûn (The Imperial Museum) in 1917. This publication was prepared in order to introduce this important document, which has been available to be studied by scholars, to a wider audience. Also within the scope of the project, to be able to allow the preservation of the original document, a one to one scale copy of the scroll was produced and presented to the Museum.". Dimitriadis Efendi is the son of Dimitri Efendi ofthe Ottoman Greeks. He studied at the Greek school in Beyoglu and later at the French Missionary Schools and received lessonsin mathematics from a private teacher. He was speaking Turkish, and able to read and write in French and Greek. In 1871, he joined the Greek Philosophical Syllogos of Constantinople. He acted as a permanent member of the Archaeological Committee of the Society between 1871 and 1876, and as a member of the Science Committee of the Society from 1876 to 1882. He gave lectures on Practical Geometry, Applied Geometry, and Applied Engineering. On 31 May, 1882, he was appointed as the Umûr-u Nâfia Mühendisi of the Province of Thessaloniki. In consideration of his services, he was later decorated with the Fourth class of the Order of Medjidie on 22 September 1890 and to being promoted to the rank of assistant chief engineer, he was also appointed as the structural ccommissioner of waterworks. His Marmara Sea Walls is a drawing and watercolour on paper, with a size of 47,7x2800 cm. The lower, righthand corner bears the signature of G. A. Demetriades, dated 1875. The scroll contains the Marmara Sea façade of the Istanbul Walls, starting from the Seraglio Point and reaching all the way to the section located just before Yedikule. It could be observed that the names of some doors, mosques, pavilions, and piers were marked on the scroll with a pencil, sometimes in Arabic and at other times in Latin letters. The expressions written in pencil on certain parts of the walls and bastions...". Contents: The panorama of the Marmara Sea Walls by Dimitriadis Efendi.; Foreword by Zeynep Kiziltan.; Preface by Engin Akyürek.; Chief Engineer Dimitridis Efendi by Üzeyir Altekin.; Evaluations on the panorama of the Marmara Sea Walls by DImitriadis Efendi by Nisa Semiz.; And the Panorama volume including the folded color original huge panorama in its wrapper.