Sentence examples for pera from inspiring English sources

Midnight at the Pera Palace: The Birth of Modern Istanbul.

The first Turkish playhouse was built in Pera (now Beyoğlu), significantly in the middle of the foreign and embassy quarter of Istanbul.

Before the 19th century, only Johann Wagenseil had produced an encyclopaedia for children the Pera Librorum Juvenilium (1695; "Collection of Juvenile Books").

The approach from the Golden Horn is steep, and a funicular railway runs between the Galata waterfront and the Pera Plateau.

Eventually Galata became too crowded, so that the tide of building moved higher up the slope to the open country of Pera.

Pera (modern Beyoglu), the Genoese independent suburb of Constantinople, gradually outstripped the Byzantine capital in economic development, and Kaffa (modern Feodosiya) became the capital of a broad stretch of the Crimean coast ruled by the Genoese.

Last year, Agatha Christie's beloved Pera Palace Hotel (Meşrutiyet Caddesi No 52) unveiled a meticulous resaoration, and this spring Marriott and Ian Schrager introduced their second Edition (Buyukdere Caddesi No. 136), a 78-room ultramodern tower with a flagship Cipriani restaurant.

They have seven 19th-century apartments, each of which has its own original features: a gilded, wooden, oil-painted ceiling in pera place, and floral frescos in sahkulu place.

In Istanbul, the railway's southern terminus, she wrote one of her most celebrated works, Murder on the Orient Express, from her room at the Hotel Pera Palace.

The Memphis Grizzlies' majority owner, Michael Heisley, said he had an agreement to sell the team to a group headed by a California billionaire, Robert J. Pera.

It's worth pointing out that Carlo Formisano, the manager at La Pera Brothers Poultry, the Borough Park company that kills and cleans the chickens, explained to us that after the frigid, blood-draining bath, the chickens are also given a quick exposure to boiling water as part of the process of plucking their feathers.