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Amazon. The Blue Guide: Turkey by Bernard McDonagh. The Blue Guides are the only guides that won't sell you a bill of goods and call it history, or architecture, or what-have-you.
Amazon. The Lives of the Monastery Builders of Soumela: Saints Barnabas and Sophronios of Athens and Saint Christopher of Trebizond, Builders of the Mt. Mela illustrated by Dormition Skete. (Volume 2 of the Lives of the Monastery Builders). Visit St. Nectarios Press for more information.
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A decent potted history from the Turkish periodical Newspot, 2000. I can't find a way to navigate upward.
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