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In Ankara's historic mosques, inscriptions record decoration work completed in 1424 by Nakkaş Ali, a craftsman from Bursa, while in Manisa, blue-and-white ceramic tiles feature in the 1522 Hafsa Hatun Mosque and the Çoban Mustafa Pasha complex. Which decorative tradition unifies both?
Ottoman decoration is a sweeping term for the mosque tilework, calligraphy and inlaid stone that flourished across the empire from the 15th to 17th centuries. Ankara and Manisa preserve some of its earliest and most refined examples.