Word: provinciale
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I very provincial city. In a nine way. Every year, some newspaper outside New England will run a feature on the Beanpot Tournament--not so much a sports article, but a slice-of-life-in-Boston article. Curious, isn't it, how Bostonians get so excited over college hockey, the...
The Turks, whose legacy is still strong today, built Sarajevo into a flourishing provincial capital. Its very name derives from saraj, the Turkish word for palace. The Turks built the cobblestoned medieval marketplace and the surrounding old town now known as the bascarsija, and the handsome mosque of Gazi Husref...
Each night at 10:45, crowds stream out of Broadway's Brooks Atkinson Theater limp and disheveled, gasping for breath and wiping their eyes. Much as they may appear to be fleeing tear gas or a smoke bomb, these people are in fact the happy victims of a very...
One crucial aspect of the Soviets' original occupation plan was to build the Afghan army into an effective force. Nonetheless, that army has dwindled from 100,000 men in 1979 to about 40,000 today, as soldiers have deserted and civilians have done their best to escape forced conscription...
Today Sardis is the home of about 25 American and Turkish scholars each summer. They employ modern scientific methods in their research--sediment coring erosion and land use studies--as well as traditional methods of archaeological excavation and scholarly research. None of the antiquities can be taken out of Turkey...