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Soliman For Ottoman sultans thus named, use Sulayman.


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; ...Gate TOPKAPI PALACE: Built in 1453 as the residence of the Ottoman sultans - it is one of the best examples to be found of Muslim architecture...the river to gaze at the elegant palaces and villas of the Ottoman Sultans, generals and aristocrats. Boats go from the Eminonu Ferry... Read more
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Suleiman I
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Roxolane, La
Roxolane, La. Nickname of Haydn's Sym. No.63 in C major, (Hob. I:63), comp. c. 1780. Uses material from earlier mus., incl. incidental mus. for the play Soliman II whose heroine was Roxolane. Read more
Süssmayr, Franz Xaver
...operas incl. Die liebe für den König (1785), Moses (1792), Il turco in Italia (1794), Der Spiegel von Arkadien (1794), Soliman der Zweite (1799), Das Hausgesinde (1802), oratorios, masses, etc. Comp. secco recitatives for Mozart's La clemenza di Tito... Read more
Charles Simon Favart
...and operettas, including La Chercheuse d'esprit (1741), Les Amours de Bastien et de Bastiene (1753), and Les Trois Sultanes; ou, Soliman second (1761). His wife, Marie Justine Benoîte Duronceray Favart, 1727-72, was a brilliant light-opera star. Read more
Kyd, Thomas
...survived into Restoration times, being seen on stage by Pepys in 1668. Among the other plays almost certainly ascribed to Kyd is Soliman and Perseda ( c. 1589–91), a tragedy at one time erroneously attributed to Peele . A domestic tragedy, Arden of Feversham... Read more

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