At a glance
- Era
- The Colonial Era
- Region
- Anatolia
In time
In space
Map: Natural Earth, public domain · places and route from the graph
Sides
The Russian army
The Ottoman army
Overview
The Russian occupation of Edirne in 1878-9 brought further devastation to the city 2.
The year the tiles were looted
During the occupation the Russians stripped the Yıldırım mosque of its tiles and the two linked marble rings that had earned it the name Küpeli Cami, and took the tiles of the Selimiye's royal gallery 1.
Connections
- Occurred at
- Edirne
- During the reign of
- Abd al-Hamid II
People and things also explored
Eski Mosque, Edirne· Uc Serefeli Mosque, Edirne· 31 March Incident· Battle of Adrianople (1829)· Battle of Doboj (1878)· Battle of Domokos· Battle of Dunis· Battle of Erzurum
Sources
- Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition (Leiden: Brill, 1954–2008), 13 volumes , vol. 2 p. 712
- Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd edition (Leiden: Brill, 1954–2008), 13 volumes , vol. 2 p. 711
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islam.museum contributors. “Russian occupation of Edirne (1878)”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/event/russian-occupation-edirne-1878/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-09.
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