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1.       Abla
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 30 Dec 2012 Sun 07:11 pm

Kız kulesi efsaneleri

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24VEKG3TI-4

 

1. The Maiden’s tower has been used for many purposes. Which one or which ones of the following was/were not mentioned in the above video clip?

 

a) restaurant

b) Ottoman navy location

c) customs station

d) isolation center for patients suffering from plague

e) graveyard

f) a place where good times were celebrated

 

2. According to a legend, what did the king want to protect her daughter from when placing her to the Maiden’s tower?

 

3. Find the following expressions from the story:

 

a) this place

b) an indispensable part

c) what a guide has to say

b) especially when Üsküdar is mentioned

e) famous of its legends

f) in that period of time

g) anno domini

h) in order to collect taxes from the ships

i) after Mehmed II had conquered Istanbul

j) the Maiden’s tower undergoes a change

k) most recently in 1995

 

(Thanks to the Turkish member who helped me with the difficult parts.)

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