A this point along the Bosporus two fortresses keep watch from opposite sites. Built in a mere 4 months under orders of Mehmet, the Sultan who was to capture Constantinople in 1453.
Hi,
I am Turkish and like to remind something;
When we talk about Persians in history just before Alexander The Great's Expedition, we say Persian Invasion, Mogol invasion, kimmer etc. Therefore, it ,s normal for a foreingner to use such words BUT as a traveller who has eaten Turkish bread and salt and breath air (in Turkish mentality) that page organiser(s) has been doing an unfairness.
From a dicttionary (With Enc. Britt.):
1 a : to take captive; also : to gain control of especially by force (capture a city) b : to gain or win especially through effort (captured 60% of the vote)
2 : to emphasize, represent, or preserve (as a scene, mood, or quality) in a more or less permanent form (at any such moment as a photograph might capture C. E. Montague)
3 : to captivate and hold the interest of
4 : to take according to the rules of a game
5 : to bring about the capture of (a subatomic particle)
6 : to record in a permanent file (as in a computer)
Please don't worry about by command of the English language. Or bother me with implicit political messages. That leaves me more time to conquer my pictures (the last part is a joke).
Mehmet Tosun
05-Mar-2006 20:15
not capture, conquer is the right expression for it.