Evliya Çelebi [SEP] date of death
Evliya Çelebi
Derviş Mehmed Zillî (25 March 1611 – 1682), known as Evliya Çelebi (), was an Ottoman explorer who travelled through the territory of the Ottoman Empire and neighboring lands over a period of forty years, recording his commentary in a travelogue called the "Seyâhatnâme" ("Book of Travel"). The name Çelebi is an honorific title meaning gentleman (see pre-1934 Turkish naming conventions).
Life.
Evliya Çelebi was born in Constantinople (now Istanbul) in 1611 to a wealthy family
Çelebi Sultan Mehmed Mosque
The Çelebi Sultan Mehmed Mosque (; ), also known as the Bayezid Mosque (Τέμενος Βαγιαζήτ) and the Great Mosque ( or "Ulu Camii"), is an early 15th-century Ottoman mosque in Didymoteicho, East Macedonia and Thrace, in the far northeast of Greece.
Construction.
The 17th-century Ottoman traveller Evliya Çelebi records that the mosque was begun under Sultan Bayezid I (r. 1389–1402), but after his death at the Battle of Ankara and the turmoil that followed,