Talk:Iznik
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[edit] Section/article on Iznik tileware needed
Turkish/Ottoman-era Iznik is most famous for its tileware, particularly a certain shade of blue used in them. I expected to find some mention of that here; guess I'll have to resource the books I've got and concoct something. Should it be a separate article, as it's not a political/urban history?Skookum1 17:10, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
- I have created a link from "İznik Çini" in this article to a separate article on İznik Pottery.
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- I just finished a class on Islamic art, and ended up scanning in most of the pictures from my textbook, and have some nice examples of Iznik tiles and pottery. Would someone like me to upload them? Pelargonium 08:37, 27 March 2007 (UTC)Pelargonium
[edit] Visitors to Iznik
While researching Iznik pottery I discovered that Ibn Battuta visited Iznik in 1331 or 1333. For the text in Arabic/French see Defrémery & Sanguinetti (1853/1858) Vol 2 p 323.
Iznik was also visited by John Covel in 1677. Selected portions of his diaries were published by the Hakluyt Society in 1893 (available here) but unfortunately it appears that Covel's description of Iznik is not included. Julian Raby discusses Covel's visit in "A seventeenth century description of Iznik-Nicaea", Istanbuler Mitteillungen, 1976, pp. 149-188. (not available online) Aa77zz (talk) 08:37, 11 September 2011 (UTC)
