May 9, 2021 | Hiking
Greetings dear friends and fellow walkers and pilgrims! I’m making a pilgrimage from Sweden to Istanbul and halfway through Serbia I will join this beautiful path, the Sultan’s trail! If anyone is walking the coming weeks it would be lovely to connect or just hear...
May 6, 2021 | Read more
The Sultans Trail is a long-distance hiking and cycling trail from Vienna to Istanbul. It is 2.500 kilometres long (1,550 mi). The trail passes through Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Greece, and Turkey. Sultan Süleyman the magnificent @British...
May 6, 2021 | Read more
love cycling Tips, Trips, and Stories From and For cyclists ? Sultans Trail cycling route (parts 1 & 2) including alternative routes Here we have chosen for the natural beauty of the Fruška Gora containing Europe’s largest tilia tree forest and a large...
Apr 28, 2021 | In-depth
The example for Erdogan, by Jaap Scholten * By the end of May 2016 writer Jaap Scholten visited the recently discovered tomb of Suleiman I The Magnificent. A great discovery that even attracts the Turkish president Erdogan, an admirer of Sultan Suleiman. The finding...
Apr 28, 2021 | In-depth
Dutch mediation helped to make peace: Jacob Colyer: Mediating between the European and the Ottoman World In a time when international contacts came not as natural as they currently do, Jacob Colyer and to a lesser extent his father Justinus played an integral part in...
