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	SEYAHATNAME: EVLIYA CELEBI
		Hezarfen Ahmet Celebi (sometimes spelled Hazarfen Ahmed Celebi) the most famous Turkish flyer, inspired by the studies by Leonardo Da Vinci and with some corrections and balancing adjustments, derived from studying the eagle in flight, finally, after nine experimental attempts, gave shape to his wing apparatus.
		Evliya Celebi, born on March 25, 1611 in Istanbul, was the son of Dervis Mehmed Zilli, the chief jewellery designer of the Ottoman palace.
		Even though Evliya Celebi claims to have witnessed every stage of the expedition and seen many lands such as Sweden and the Netherlands, many experts argue that it was impossible for him to have embarked on such a journey under the conditions of his time.
	www.angelfire.com /realm/bodhisattva/celebi.html (1591 words)

	hezarfen ahmet celebi
		adýndaki hezarfen sýfatý, sözlük anlamý itibari ile "binfenli" demek.
		(hezarfen ahmet celebi, 20.05.2004 03:02 ~ 20.11.2004 02:42)
		“ilk ucan adam” hezarfen ahmet celebi,çagindan yuzyillarca once ayni dusunceyi gerceklestirmeye calismis ismail cevheri adlý bir baþka turk bilginini ornek alarak,bugunku hava tasitlarinin ilkel seklini gerceklestirmistir.
	sozluk.sourtimes.org /show.asp?t=hezarfen+ahmet+celebi (401 words)

	Hezarfen Ahmet Celebi -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		He is supposed to have been inspired by and used the studies of (Italian painter and sculptor and engineer and scientist and architect; the most versatile genius of the Italian Renaissance (1452-1519)) Leonardo da Vinci on the flight of (Warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings) birds.
		One of Hezarfen's friends (Click link for more info and facts about Lagari Hasan Celebi) Lagari Hasan Celebi is known to have performed the first flight with a rocket in a conical cage filled with gun powder.
		Hezarfen was exiled to (A republic in northwestern Africa on the Mediterranean Sea with a population that is predominantly Sunni Muslim; colonized by France in the 19th century but gained autonomy in the early 1960s) Algeria where he died soon at the age of 31.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/h/he/hezarfen_ahmet_celebi.htm (280 words)

	Encyclopedia: List of Turks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Ahmet Necdet Sezer Ahmet Necdet Sezer (born September 13, 1941 in Afyon) is the tenth and current President of Turkey.
		Ahmet Taner Kışlalı (1939-1999) was a Turkish intellectual, political scientist, lawyer, journalist/author and politician.
		Hasan Celebi, (Turkish: Hasan Çelebi), born 1937 in Erzurum, Turkey is a world-renowned Turkish master of Arabic calligraphy.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/List-of-Turks (6187 words)

	Hezarfen Ahmet Celebi - Wikipedia
		Hezarfen Ahmet Celebi (lived in the 17th century in Constantinople, Ottoman Empire) is one of the first aviators, who has succeded to fly with artificial wings.
		He is supposed to be inspired and use the studies of Leonardo Da Vinci on flight of birds.
		Some few people known to succeed this kind of flight are an aviator from Moorish Spain and an English monk in 9th and 12th centuries, respectively.
	nostalgia.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hezarfen_Ahmet_Celebi (154 words)

	Encyclopedia: Hezarfen Ahmet Celebi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Lagari Hasan Celebi (Turkish: Lagari Hasan Çelebi) is considered the first person to have flown.
		As a means of recording the passage of time, the 10th century was that century which lasted from 901 to 1000.
		Sultan Murad IV Murad IV (June 16, 1612 – February 9, 1640) was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1623 to 1640, known both for restoring the authority of the state and for the brutality of his methods.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Hezarfen-Ahmet-Celebi (820 words)

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		Hazerfan Ahmet Çelebi kuşlar gibi uçma hayalini kazasız belasız gerçekleştirmiş.
	www.websiteleri.org /?nedir=hazerfan+ahmet+ (797 words)

	Turkish Odyssey/Places of Interest/Marmara/Bosphorus Cruise
		In the 17C, during the reign of the Ottoman Sultan Murat IV, Hezarfen Ahmet Celebi, a scholar whose first name means "a thousand sciences", managed to fly by wearing rush-work wings, from the top of the Galata Tower to Uskudar, an Asian settlement opposite and across the Bosphorus.
		Sultan Murat admired Hezarfen but he was also afraid that his unusual ability would win him excessive power.
		The presence of such men is not auspicious." Hezarfen was then exiled to Algeria where he died broken hearted far away from home.
	www.turkishodyssey.com /places/marmara/marmara3.htm (1165 words)

	Ottoman Orville (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In the 17th century, one Hezarfen Ahmet Celebi jumped from Istanbul's Galata Tower and flew across the Bosporus with a handmade set of wings, surpassing the much later feat of the Wright brothers by a significant distance.
		He summoned Celebi, gave him a reward, then exiled him to Damascus -- with secret orders to have him murdered on the way.
		Celebi's remarkable invention during the siege of Vienna in 1683.
	www.dailyspeculations.com /Letter/Ottomon%20Orville.html (498 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		One notable exception, however, was the Turkish scientist, Hezarfen Ahmet Celebi whose life story became the subject of a recent popular Turkish film, "Istanbul Under my Wings".
		Celebi, who lived in the 17th century managed to make artificial wings for himself.
		It is this flying ability of birds and especially the instinctive urge of quite a few to travel thousands of kilometres twice a year that keeps on fascinating people.
	www.byegm.gov.tr /yayinlarimiz/NEWSPOT/1998/Jan/N12.htm (905 words)

	anguskennedy.co.uk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Although the history of flight is popularly known to have started with the Montgolfier brothers in 1783, well before this a Turkish scientist, Hezarfen Ahmet elebi (1609-1640) flew across the Bosphorus from the tower.
		Hezarfen was exiled to Algeria where he died at the age of 31.
		One of CelebiÕs friends, Lagari Hasan Celebi, performed the first flight with a rocket, packed into a conical cage filled with gun powder.
	www.anguskennedy.co.uk /travel/turkey04.html (3253 words)

	Encyclopedia: Hezarfen Ahmet Ãelebi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
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		He climbed the Galata Tower and launched himself into the wind; he passed over the Bosporus and landed in the slopes of Üsküdar on the Anatolian side.
		Click for other authoritative sources for this topic (summarised at Factbites.com).
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Hezarfen-Ahmet-%C7elebi (734 words)

	(CULTURE) Tall Armenian Tale: The Other Side of the Falsified Genocide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		However, almost one and a half centuries earlier, a Turkish scientist, Hezarfen Ahmet Celebi (1609-1640), flew across the Bosphorous from the Galata tower to Uskudar (after being inspired by the Tenth Century Turkish scientist Ismail Cevheri, who plummeted to his death during a flying experiment).
		Celebi was sent into exile (in Algeria), a victim of religious closed-mindedness; the scientist died, broken-hearted, at the youthful age of 31.
		His contemporary, the great Galileo, was condemned to lifelong imprisonment (via house arrest) in 1633, found to have breached the conditions laid down by the Inquisition...
	tallarmeniantale.com /Piri-Reis.htm (5186 words)

	History of Galata, Galata History, Istanbul Galata
		For a period of time during the Ottoman era the public referred it as the Hezarfen Tower.
		Because it was from here that Hezarfen Ahmet Celebi took off and glided to the slopes of Uskudar by means of artificial wings.
		The tower was used in a variety of capacities, as a shipyard warehouse in the 15th, as a prison in 16th and a fire watch-tower in the 18th centuries.''
	www.istanbulportal.com /istanbulportal/Galata.aspx (353 words)

	Hezarfen Ahmet Celebi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Hezarfen Ahmet Celebi, que vivió en el 17mo siglo en Constantinople en el imperio del otomano, es uno de los primeros aviadores haber tenido éxito en volar con las alas artificiales.
		Conocen uno de los amigos Lagari Hasan Celebi de Hezarfen para haber realizado el primer vuelo con un cohete en una jaula cónica llenada del polvo del arma.
		English version: Hezarfen Ahmet Celebi Next: Hans Gerhard Creutzfeldt Up
	www.yotor.net /wiki/es/he/Hezarfen%20Ahmet%20Celebi.htm (154 words)

	7/15/96 INT/SIGHTINGS
		In the historically based movie, a 17th century inventor named Hezarfen Ahmet Celebi approaches Sultan Murad IV with a plan to make wings that would enable him to fly.
		Undaunted, Celebi takes off and soars over the city as the Sultan's guards give chase.
		But he pays dearly for his pursuit of flight: he is sent into exile.
	www.time.com /time/international/1996/960715/sightings.html (916 words)

	Turco Tour/Information
		The first man ever to fly was turkish.
		Using two wings he build Hezarfen Ahmet Celebi, flew from Galata tower over the Bosphorus to land in Uskudar in the 17th century.
		Amny valuable findigs from Anatolia can also be seen in museums all over the world.
	www.turcotour.com /diduknow_eng.htm (440 words)

	HEZARFEN AHMET CELEBI (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		zamanında uçma tasarısını gerçekleştirmiş ve geniş bilgisinden ötürü halk arasında “binfenli” anlamına gelan “Hezarfen” lakabıyla anılmıştır.Evinde deneylerle uğraşıp,çeşitli konularda araştırmalar yapmaktan usanmayan yiğit,akıllı,yürekli bir kişi olduğu,kendisiyle ilgili gerçekler arasındadır.
		“İlk uçan adam” Hezarfen Ahmet Çelebi,çağından yüzyıllarca önce aynı düşünceyi gerçekleştirmeye çalışmış İ
		Hezarfen Ahmet Çelebi,Cevheri’nin başarısızlıkla sonuçlanan deneyi üzerinde uzun süre düşünmüş,özellikle hava akımları ve kuşların uçuşunu inceleyerek kendi çalışmalarını onun bıraktığı yerden alıp geliştirmiştir.
	www.tayyareci.com /hezarfen.htm (181 words)

	galata tower, Istanbul, Turkey
		Later, during part of the Ottoman era the public called it "Hezarfen Tower" after Hezarfen Ahmed Celebi.
		- In 1638 Hezarfen Ahmed Celebi glided on artificial wings from the top of the tower to the slopes of Chrysopolis (Scutari) on the Asian side - becoming one of the first men in history to fly.
		He was the first human who tried to fly and he flew from the tower to Skutari with the artificial wings that he planned and constructed.
	www.virtualtourist.com /vt/1c0a38/4/271f (1227 words)

	JTW News - Historic ceremony from UNIVERSIADE Izmir
		Izmir Mayor Aziz Kocaoglu in his welcoming speech commented that they were very happy to host the international athletes in Izmir and hoped they would all have a great time in Izmir during the two-week event.
		The program started from the Hittites to Troy, from Piri Reis to Hezarfen Celebi, and from the mother goddess, beautiful Kybele (Cybele) of Smyrna (ancient Izmir), to our regional values in their present geographic location.
		Every section of the presentation related to cultures that have dwelled on this land and were conveyed by means of video images, light effects and special effects accompanied with music and choreography.
	www.turkishweekly.net /news.php?id=17748 (968 words)

	mkaz.com : Turkey 2004
		As we found out, unfortunately the hard way, it is closed on mondays
		The courtyard of Sultan Ahmet Camii, the Blue Mosque.
		The first flight from Europe to Asia was from the tower by Hezarfen Ahmet Celebi with wings he invented
	www.mkaz.com /photo/trips/turkey2004/index.php?idx=1 (253 words)

	FLYERS: Before Leonardo Da Vinci
		The Anglo Saxons of Britain were making pilgrimages as early as the 8th century when St.Willibald, Bishop of Eichstadt made a journey lasting seven years.
		The event is recorded by writer and historian Evliya Celebi (traveller), an eye witness to the feat, in his book Seyahatname (a book of travel).
		Do You Think Flying in the Sky Is Magical?
	www.angelfire.com /realm/bodhisattva/flyers.html (533 words)

	Ataman Hotel - Towers of Istanbul
		Another signpost is Galata Tower.On traffic signs a white arrow on a blue ground indicates a one-way street, and Galata Tower is like an arrow pointing up into the sky.
		The 17th century scholar Hezarfen Ahmet Celebi was the first person to realise what the tower meant, and making himself a pair of wings leapt off the parapet of the tower and glided to a safe landing on the far shore of the Bosphorus.
		In one of his poems, painter and poet Bedri Rahmi Eyuboðlu acts as matchmaker for the Maiden’s and Galata towers, declaring that if the Maiden’s Tower had any sense it would marry the Galata Tower and bear a brood of children!
	www.atamanhotel.com /istanbul/towersofistanbul.html (470 words)

	UBS Special Report 27, Romania & Turkey -- November 2001 #15
		In the 17th century, Turkish scientist Hezarfen Ahmet Celebi climbed to the top, attached a pair of wings to his shoulders and reportedly glided 1.5 km across the Bosphorus strait, landing safely on the other side.
		Looking up at the tall Galata Tower, it is hard not to admire Mr Celebi’s unfailing optimism that had led him to jump.
		Just around the corner there is a modern-day story of unfailing optimism.
	www.biblesociety.org /sr_27/sr27_15.htm (1591 words)

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Hezarfen Ahmet Celebi
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	List of Turks -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		(Click link for more info and facts about Ahmet II) Ahmet II
		(Click link for more info and facts about Hezarfen Ahmet Celebi) Hezarfen Ahmet Celebi
		(Click link for more info and facts about Lagari Hasan Celebi) Lagari Hasan Celebi
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/L/Li/List_of_Turks.htm (2083 words)

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