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Dr Gul Sen
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Historian. Senior Lecturer. maritime history & labor history & Ottoman history & German local history & connected history || hiking🌄
From "Machiel Kiel: A Memoir"

#MachielKiel
November 10, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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Check out our most recent research article 'Hospital ships of the Royal Navy in World War One: From pre-war planning to the aftermath of Jutland' by Edward J. Wawrzynczak and Jane V.S. Wickenden

This article describes the principal naval hospital ships

doi.org/10.1177/0843...

#maritimehistory
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November 10, 2025 at 5:03 PM
No words can truly describe him..

Gül Şen. "Machiel Kiel: A Memoir." Kadim 10 (October 2025): 283-289.

#OttomanHistory #Architecture #OpenAccess
#Photography
#MachielKiel
November 9, 2025 at 3:42 PM
For those who are interested in intellectual history and early modern Ottoman world: Don't miss this extraordinary book by Marinos Sariyannis!
Published open access today!🎉

#OttomanHistory #EarlyModern
November 6, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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Es ist soweit – mit Eurer Hilfe haben wir die 2k Unterschriften geknackt! 🥳

Die Kampagne wird fortgeführt, der Brief kann weiterhin hier unterzeichnet werden: ✍️ c.org/mvvg2V2nND

Wir freuen uns über jede weitere Verbreitung unseres offenen Briefs!! 🙏💪

#PDprekär #IchBinHanna #IchBinReyhan
November 6, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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Wir machen weiter - macht mit!! ✊
#PDprekär #IchBinHanna #IchBinReyhan
Es ist soweit – mit Eurer Hilfe haben wir die 2k Unterschriften geknackt! 🥳

Die Kampagne wird fortgeführt, der Brief kann weiterhin hier unterzeichnet werden: ✍️ c.org/mvvg2V2nND

Wir freuen uns über jede weitere Verbreitung unseres offenen Briefs!! 🙏💪

#PDprekär #IchBinHanna #IchBinReyhan
November 6, 2025 at 1:50 PM
A quick outdoor during a 13-hours working day.
Photo taken today at around 4 pm in the #Moselle region.

#nature #photography #trees #autumn
November 5, 2025 at 9:24 PM
The new special issue of DIYAR has just been published open access.
The articles are about heritage and collection studies from Romania during the late Ottoman period and post-Ottoman times. This issue's editor is Roxana Coman. Link in the following post. 1/2

#OttomanHistory #art #OpenAccess
November 5, 2025 at 7:25 PM
After the defeat at the Battle of Chesme (Çeşme) in July 1770 by the Russian fleet it became necessary to modernize the Ottoman fleet. French specialists were the first who started to implement French technologies in shipbuilding.

#maritimeHistory #OttomanHistory
November 5, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Central-European experts employed at the Ottoman Naval Arsenal in the late 18th century.
This is the topic of my morning class..

#maritimeHistory #navalHistory
November 4, 2025 at 8:11 PM
A lonely rose is being blooming despite November
(Photo taken Sunday)

#nature #photography #garden
November 4, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Late #autumn
Yesterday late afternoon.

#Moselle #Photography
November 3, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Galley Slavery wasn't just a story; it was realit y across the Mediterranean for centuries.
Who were the Ottoman galley slaves, and what was life like on board? Find out in my article:

#OttomanHistory #MaritimeHistory #NavalHistory
#UnfreeLabor
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November 3, 2025 at 7:42 PM
I would like to draw attention to this recently published book:
The Nature of the Ottoman City: Water and Urban Space in Sofia, 1380s-1910s, by Stefan Peychev, published by Cambridge University Press.

#History #OttomanHistory #BookSky
November 3, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Almost arrived..

#Moselle
November 2, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...
‘Opposing the inevitability of AI at universities is possible and necessary’ | Radboud University
Since the widespread release of ChatGPT in December of 2022, AI has taken over much of the world by storm – including academia. Most of this happened with very little pushback, despite a myriad of iss...
www.ru.nl
November 1, 2025 at 10:26 PM
The Lieser, left tributary of the Moselle.

Video taken Nov 29.

#rivers #Moselle #hiking #photography
November 1, 2025 at 9:51 PM
I was really planing to go #hiking on this public holiday (Allsaints/ Halloween)😅
November 1, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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"Fleets and Naval Forces of the Late Roman Mediterranean (3rd–6th Centuries)" by Alex Elliott, one of our #alumni, was published recently by Franz Steiner Verlag as part of the Historia - Einzelschriften monograph series.

🔗 www.steiner-verlag.de/Fleets-and-N...

#ClassicsBluesky #Book #NavalHistory
November 1, 2025 at 3:57 PM
🚢 "To the Galleys!" – Convict Labor in the Ottoman Navy

This was my inaugural lecture at the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Bonn in December 2021.

Gül Şen: Auf Die Galeere! [To The Galleys!], DAMALS 11 (2022): 58-63.

#maritimeHistory #unfreeLabor #research #Galleys
October 31, 2025 at 10:21 PM
On Halloween I dressed up as a galley slave

#unfreeLabor
#maritimeHistory
October 31, 2025 at 10:05 PM
🏰 1st stop: the ruins of Grevenburg Castle, built in 1350 by Count Johann III of Sponheim-Starkenburg. In 1680, it was taken by the forces of Louis XIV of France, who expanded and fortified it - destroyed during the war with Spain in 1734.
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Photo was taken mid-October.

#localHistory #Moselle
October 31, 2025 at 9:34 PM
I was delighted to welcome my hiking group from Bonn and to guide them on a 14 km trail that led us past some of Traben-Trarbach's most fascinating historical sites. 1/2
Photo was taken mid-October.

#hiking #localHistory #Moselle
October 31, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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⚓ Did you know the Navy Records Society has published over 170 annual volumes in print and online? 📚

Discover the full collection: buff.ly/xuKTHBk

#navyrecords #navalhistory #navyhistory #NRS #history #research #royalnavy #trafalgar #hms #nelson #ww2 #tudor #ww2 #student #academic
Books – The Navy Records Society
The Navy Records Society publishes an annual volume in print and online. Each work presents previously unpublished documents on naval history, edited, introduced and given an analytical commentary by…
www.navyrecords.org.uk
October 30, 2025 at 9:23 AM
A nice example of a Roman oar-propelled vessel.

#maritimeHistory
#ReliefWednesday!
A Roman marble relief of a warship. Found in the necropolis of Praeneste (Latium), late 1st century BC.
The relief presumably belonged to the tomb of a Roman veteran who had served on Octavian’s side at the Battle of Actium in 31 BC.

📷 me

🏺 #archaeology
October 30, 2025 at 9:42 PM