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The siege of the Acropolis took place on 23–29 September 1687, as the Venetian forces under Francesco Morosini and Otto Wilhelm Königsmarck laid siege to the Acropolis of Athens, held by the Ottoman garrison of the city. The siege resulted in the destruction of a large part of the Parthenon, which the Ottomans used as a gunpowder store.
Ottoman footstools are often sold as coordinating furniture with armchairs, sofas, or gliders. Other names for this piece of furniture include footstool, [5] hassock, [6] pouf (sometimes spelled pouffe), [7] [8] in Shropshire, England, the old dialect word tumpty, [9] and in Newfoundland humpty. [10]
Editing footstool An Ottoman footstool Self-portrait of William Notman (with one foot resting on a footstool) Automobile pedals in a Subaru Legacy. From left to right: foot rest, clutch, brake, accelerator. A footstool (foot stool, footrest, foot rest) is a piece of furniture or a support used to elevate the feet.
In July 1644, an Ottoman ship bound for Egypt, carrying the former Chief Black Eunuch of the Harem, the kadi of Cairo, and many pilgrims heading to Mecca, was besieged and captured by the Knights of Malta. [73] In response, the Ottomans in 1645 amassed a sizable fleet with no stated target, although many believed it would sail on Malta. [74]
The Second Siege of Missolonghi was the second attempt by Ottoman forces to capture the strategically located port town of Missolonghi during the third year of the Greek War of Independence (1823). The second siege is usually ignored however, and the name is often applied to the greater siege of 1825–1826 .
The Ottoman–Safavid War of 1616–1618 was a brief war between the Ottoman Empire and Safavid Iran.. After the Ottoman–Safavid war (1603–1612), the Ottomans and Safavids had signed the Treaty of Nasuh Pasha, in which their borders were changed back to the previous one under Selim I and Shah Ismail I.