(EDU) STUDENTS AROUND WORLD IN TURKEY TO LEARN OTTOMAN.AYVALIK, Jul 10, 2009 (TUR tur: see ibex. ) -- Students all around the world are visiting Turkey to learn Ottoman language. Eighteen university students from various countries are learning Ottoman language in the "Ottoman Summer School" opened in the Aegean town of Ayvalik by the U.S. Harvard University Harvard University, mainly at Cambridge, Mass., including Harvard College, the oldest American college. Harvard College Harvard College, originally for men, was founded in 1636 with a grant from the General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. and Koc University. The university students are actually attending Ottoman-Turkish departments in their universities in the United States and Europe. The course is given at the Sevgi-Dogan Gonul Ottoman Researches Institute on the Cunda Islet islet /is·let/ (-lit) an island. islets of Langerhans irregular microscopic structures scattered throughout the pancreas and comprising its endocrine portion. of Ayvalik. "We set up the institute in 1987 to promote Turkish culture and ancient historical heritage to foreigners, and to teach foreigners the Ottoman language because we think that the historical foundations of many states established on the territories of the Ottoman Empire after the empire was demolished, could be seen in Ottoman archives," Gonul Tekin, the founder of the institute told AA correspondent. Tekin said the institute had trained 200 students, including university lecturers, so far. The summer school is giving Ottoman reading, writing, calligraphy calligraphy (kəlĭg`rəfē) [Gr.,=beautiful writing], skilled penmanship practiced as a fine art. See also inscription; paleography. European Calligraphy In Europe two sorts of handwriting came into being very early. lessons, Arabic and Persian language lessons for six weeks. Students can also have Turkish language education besides the other courses. (THROUGH ASIA Asia (ā`zhə), the world's largest continent, 17,139,000 sq mi (44,390,000 sq km), with about 3.3 billion people, nearly three fifths of the world's total population. PULSE) |
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