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- II (1894 - 1917). During the Russo-Turkish War (1877–78), he had ... of troops and war materials in the Russo-Turkish War, attracting the attention ...50 KB (7,301 words) - 10:01, 26 January 2023
- pilot in the world, as well as the first Turkish female aviator. She was ... In 1935, she was enrolled in the Turkish Aviation League's "Turk ...76 KB (11,315 words) - 23:28, 17 May 2023
- cuisine, as well as Chinese, Thai, Turkish, Italian, and Japanese food. The music scene includes live dance bands such as Kilimanjaro, Twanga ...19 KB (2,649 words) - 22:16, 25 January 2024
- [Ottoman Empire|Ottoman]] rule during the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-78.]] Alexander had little of the special knowledge required for dealing successfully ...18 KB (2,638 words) - 14:23, 18 July 2023
- and eighteenth centuries, when the Turkish hold on the area grew weaker ... and learning and was assimilated into the Turkish Ottoman Empire in the sixteenth ...35 KB (5,063 words) - 15:12, 2 August 2023
- *The German Fountain (Turkish: Alman Çeşmesi) in the northern end of old hippodrome (Sultanahmet Square), Istanbul, Turkey; *The Jet d'Eau ...20 KB (2,954 words) - 06:37, 1 April 2024
- to publicize the Chechen cause; as was a Turkish passenger ship carrying 200 Russian passengers on January 9, 1996 (these incidents, perpetrated ...53 KB (7,700 words) - 19:54, 26 March 2024
- al-wuḍū', Persian:آبدست ābdast, Turkish: abdest)or (less often) ghusl. Muslims are required to perform wudu in preparation for ritual ...20 KB (3,118 words) - 04:49, 14 June 2023
- Her father served as a cavalry officer in the Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878 ... tipografii, 1900) (Review of the Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878 on the ...55 KB (7,707 words) - 20:09, 30 July 2023
- reportedly took 500,000 prisoners during a Turkish invasion of Sindh and Punjab ... ethnic traditions—for example Romanian, Turkish, Jewish, and Slavic—as ...37 KB (5,594 words) - 21:36, 16 April 2023
- Canada in 1913. Bellow's father had imported Turkish figs and Egyptian onions while in Russia, but life proved to be very difficult in Canada. ...18 KB (2,867 words) - 17:06, 23 December 2022
- In 1880, inspired by Russia's victory in the Russo-Turkish War, Kuprin enrolled into the Second Moscow Military High School, which turned ...37 KB (5,536 words) - 16:30, 7 September 2023
- kingship from 1526 but mostly under Ottoman Turkish occupation for 150 years, was reconquered in 1683 - 1699. The Spanish Habsburgs died out in ...24 KB (3,568 words) - 13:21, 24 January 2023
- Dalling), "about the decay of the Turkish Empire, and its being a ... the independence and integrity of the Turkish Empire in order to preserve ...66 KB (10,174 words) - 15:23, 25 January 2023
- [[Image:OldmapofMecca.jpg|left|225px|thumb|1787 Turkish map of Mecca]] Transportation facilities related to the Hajj or Umrah (minor pilgrimage ...20 KB (3,193 words) - 03:48, 9 November 2022
- centuries, for example, might favor things Turkish at one time, Chinese at another, and Japanese at yet another. In more recent times, Globalization ...22 KB (3,274 words) - 02:42, 14 July 2022
- century, marking the beginning of Turkish control over the most direct trade routes between Europe and Asia. The Encyclopedia Americana 1989: 176 ...21 KB (3,121 words) - 04:51, 16 December 2022
- " and entered the English language via the Turkish word "qismet" meaning either "the will\save Allah" or "portion, lot ...22 KB (3,568 words) - 00:43, 25 March 2024
- *A segment of the 2005 Turkish anthology film Istanbul Tales made up of five stories based on popular fairy tales is based on this tale in which ...20 KB (3,064 words) - 22:02, 10 December 2023
- in Arabic, Persian, Urdu, Sindhi and Turkish languages. ==Sports== [[Image:Sports Club Ahmedabad2.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Cricket stadium at the ...41 KB (5,921 words) - 06:54, 16 June 2023
- with blue eyes, as well as others of Arab,Turkish, and Indian descent. Before the tsunami, the region of Daya (Lamno) area used to have an unusually ...19 KB (2,798 words) - 07:32, 14 June 2023
- with some Albanian chiefs and fought-off Turkish rule from 1443-1478 (although ... religion during the period of Ottoman Turkish rule from the fifteenth ...58 KB (8,519 words) - 04:58, 17 June 2023
- Leaving Rome to cover the Turkish War of Independence for the International ... Her last piece of journalism, "A Turkish Divorce", about Atatürk ...42 KB (6,349 words) - 09:05, 9 March 2023
- The town played an important part in the Russo-Turkish War (1877-1878), as the chief center of the Russian invasion. ===Pogrom=== ...21 KB (3,032 words) - 17:07, 10 December 2023
- inaugurated, upon the end of the Russo-Turkish War of 1828–1829, by a ... had originated in Slavic, Greek, Ottoman Turkish, Hungarian, and German ...64 KB (9,591 words) - 18:55, 7 February 2023
- The World Factbook (ISSN 1553-8133 ; also known as the CIA World Factbook)Central Intelligence Agency. 2008-01-03 Where in the World is Mt. Kilimanjaro ...33 KB (4,760 words) - 17:51, 30 April 2023
- French, Circassian, Chechen, Persian, Kurdish, Turkish ... in 1948 and 1967. Many Jordanians are of Turkish and East European descent ...50 KB (7,586 words) - 20:00, 4 May 2024
- Among the nineteen-century works are: The Turkish Bath, Ingres (1862); The Raft of the Medusa, Théodore Géricault (1819); Liberty Leading the ...22 KB (3,221 words) - 04:13, 4 November 2022
- who were expelled from Turkey after the Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922) swelled Athens' population. Today almost half of the population of Greece ...45 KB (6,393 words) - 18:55, 19 August 2023
- by witnessing, at age five, the Russo-Turkish War and Russian presence (he claimed to have met General Eduard Totleben during the conflict). ...62 KB (8,909 words) - 22:59, 3 March 2023
- in unison with many Germans in rejecting Turkish membership of the European Union. ... Germany" during a state visit of the Turkish prime minister Ahmet Davutoğlu ...49 KB (6,775 words) - 18:05, 27 July 2023
- captured Hamadan and its towns, expelling the Turkish mercenaries. When the storm had passed, Avicenna returned with the emir to Hamadan, and carried ...23 KB (3,644 words) - 07:16, 23 August 2023
- derived. Under Ottoman rule, in Ottoman Turkish, Crete was called Girit ... skink, snake-eyed skink, moorish gecko, turkish gecko, Kotschy's gecko ...65 KB (9,473 words) - 16:16, 18 May 2024
- In Ottoman Turkish and in Bahasa Malaysia (the Malay language), its name is 'Zuhal'. == See also == * Planet * Solar System ...26 KB (3,935 words) - 17:00, 23 December 2022
- gasoline is called Benzin (German, Danish, and Turkish), Benzine in Dutch, Bensin (Swedish and Norwegian), Bensiini (Finnish), Benzyna (Polish), Benzina ...47 KB (6,891 words) - 04:38, 18 April 2024
- Science," under the pseudonym of Iskander, the Turkish form of his Christian name. His second work, also in Russian, was his Letters on the Study ...24 KB (3,543 words) - 14:23, 18 July 2023
- Mavrokordatos and Byron planned to attack the Turkish-held fortress of Lepanto, at the mouth of the Gulf of Corinth. Byron employed a fire-master ...22 KB (3,443 words) - 02:41, 4 November 2022
- [[Image:Yagli gures1.jpg|right|thumb|Yağlı güreş (Turkish oil wrestling) tournament in Istanbul]] There are almost as many folk wrestling ...26 KB (4,025 words) - 01:00, 17 April 2023
- the Breton Biniou, the Balkan Gaida, the Turkish Tulum, the Scottish smallpipes and Pastoral pipes, as well as other varieties. Traditionally ...25 KB (3,916 words) - 05:41, 26 August 2023
- one (originally as part of the Ottoman Turkish Empire). In 1875, the British government of Benjamin Disraeli bought out the Egyptian share of ...23 KB (3,489 words) - 21:32, 26 February 2023
- Ottoman Empire. Beginning as forced expulsion, the Turkish government began conducting harsher pogroms against Christian minorities such as massacres ...49 KB (7,384 words) - 10:21, 29 January 2024
- over Albania, Aladia in Turkey and a share of Turkish and German Empires in Africa. Vittorio Orlando was sent as the Italian representative with ...26 KB (3,995 words) - 08:51, 18 November 2022
- The 12-year cycle, including Turkish/Mongolian translations of the animal names (known as sanawat-e turki, سنوات ترکی,) remained in ...53 KB (8,207 words) - 17:02, 10 December 2023
- War, when they gained mandates over the former Turkish territories of the Ottoman Empire that make up what is now Syria and Lebanon, as well as most ...25 KB (3,770 words) - 17:17, 11 October 2022
- Malaysia, Mauritania, Pakistan, Tunisia, and of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. *The Pan-Arab colors, green, white, red and black, are ...25 KB (3,938 words) - 17:33, 28 March 2024
- The Turkish soft drink manufacturer whose product was listed as highest in alcohol in the October 2006 study noted that the naturally occurring ...25 KB (3,852 words) - 15:05, 27 April 2023
- [decision] to focus the play away from anti-Turkish pantomime to an existential epic." This, however, shifts a considerable degree of focus ...25 KB (3,850 words) - 21:42, 10 December 2023
- Western Europe to the Aegean Sea, and the Turkish Straits. Croatia shares ... contacts with Hungarian, Viennese and Turkish cuisine, while the coastal ...44 KB (6,383 words) - 06:26, 11 January 2024
- * Turkish literature * Mongolia * Genghis Khan * Mongol Empire * Yuan Dynasty ==Notes== ==References== * This article incorporates [http://lcweb2 ...26 KB (3,693 words) - 02:16, 18 November 2022
- father was a Navy officer and a hero of the Turkish War praised by Tsar Nicholas the First for bravery. My mother's ancestors were Tatars, the ...51 KB (7,071 words) - 15:34, 30 June 2023
- of several mission organization including the Turkish Mission Aid Society and the Church Missionary Society. He was a vice-president of the CMS ...26 KB (3,916 words) - 10:37, 11 May 2023
- defeated in 565 C.E. by a coalition of Persian and Turkish armies. Kabul became part of the Kushano-Hephthalite Kingdom of Kapisa, who were known ...23 KB (3,382 words) - 16:50, 14 May 2024
- During the Russo-Turkish War from 1876 to 1878, the Ottoman Empire used a Red Crescent instead of the Red Cross because its government believed ...66 KB (10,055 words) - 01:47, 8 December 2022
- or during the Muslim and Ottoman Turkish incursions in Europe throughout the period. Thus, there was little concept of prisoner of war during ...27 KB (4,158 words) - 00:40, 12 April 2023
- About 72.4 percent of the population are German, 20 percent Turkish and Indian, 7.6 percent others. The mean age of the population is 43 years ...25 KB (3,605 words) - 17:41, 30 January 2024
- the Court has ruled that military judges in Turkish state security courts are incompatible with Article 6. Another significant set of violations ...32 KB (4,886 words) - 04:33, 23 March 2024
- to the ingenuity of Naftaly Frenkel, a Turkish-born merchant with close ties with the OGPU. In the early 1930s, a drastic tightening of Soviet ...26 KB (3,838 words) - 12:39, 24 January 2023
- been an ineffective stunt to “persuade the Turkish government into granting him a permit” that “few expeditions have actually obtained”; and ...50 KB (7,876 words) - 00:06, 5 March 2024
- The earliest known map to date is a wall painting of the ancient Turkish city of Çatal Hüyük which has been dated to the late seventh millennium ...27 KB (4,007 words) - 00:45, 29 November 2023
- to be unlawful under both Ottoman and Turkish law as Hagia Sophia's ... opinions and drew condemnation from the Turkish opposition, UNESCO, the ...227 KB (32,955 words) - 20:31, 5 May 2024
- and electronic engineering. (Many UK and Turkish universities have departments of Electronic and Electrical Engineering.) Both define a broad ...28 KB (3,902 words) - 16:01, 13 February 2024
- a Greek Army division embroiled in the Greco-Turkish War. The war went badly for Greece, and the Turks made large gains. Philip's uncle and ...61 KB (8,760 words) - 00:36, 12 April 2023
- Munich ( München ˈmʏnçən Minga ), the capital city of Bavaria, Germany, is the third largest city in the country, with approximately 1.35 ...26 KB (3,859 words) - 02:35, 11 March 2023
- * Turkish: Sıfır * Urdu: Sifer, Anda, Zero Note that zero in Greek is translated as Μηδέν (Mèden). ==History== |right|250px|0 (zero) was ...30 KB (4,810 words) - 06:25, 13 June 2023
- ===Turkish invasion=== The Turks gradually infiltrated the Khorasan ... Arab and Baluchi populations in the south and Turkish populations ...82 KB (12,001 words) - 11:17, 6 March 2024
- equipped with these guns annihilated the Turkish fleet at the Battle of Sinop ... (formerly HMS Canada) until 1959, and the Turkish battlecruiser Yavuz (formerly ...59 KB (9,033 words) - 22:12, 16 January 2022
- His collection is vast and diverse, and includes Arabic, Persian, Turkish, and Indian pieces dating from the tenth century. One example is a ...29 KB (4,230 words) - 22:56, 30 November 2022
- The Turkish occupation began in 1541 and lasted for more than 140 years. The Turks constructed fine bathing facilities there. The western part ...27 KB (3,960 words) - 16:54, 22 November 2023
- |other_name=Beyrut(Turkish) |native_name=بيروت Bayrūt |other_name=Beyrouth (French) |city_motto=BERYTUS NUTRIX LEGUM (Latin) ...27 KB (4,043 words) - 18:41, 11 January 2023
- Bin Tepeler (a thousand mounds in Turkish) is in the northwest of Salihli district of Manisa province. It is a Lydian necropolis which dates ...28 KB (4,185 words) - 18:43, 2 May 2023
- I refer to the inhabitants of the Byzantine and Turkish regions most distant from us, whom the call has not yet reached to embrace Islam (Zwemer: 291; ...28 KB (4,307 words) - 07:21, 16 June 2023
- in Iran, and were seen to spread also in Arabia and Turkish regions under the name futuwwah or fütüvvet. In Benin, 900 of the carvers are said to have ...29 KB (4,314 words) - 03:51, 11 July 2023
- quot; or "to remain." Turkish tribes may have used this ... Khanate, territories then under Ottoman Turkish rule. Smaller groups of ...59 KB (8,936 words) - 17:18, 14 May 2024
- during the nearly five centuries of Turkish rule. From the 16th to the ... (Selânik) in Ottoman Turkish and tr|Selanik in modern Turkish, ...256 KB (33,767 words) - 18:54, 1 April 2024
- Miami is the county seat of Miami-Dade County, the most populous county in Florida. With a population of more than 409,719, Miami is the largest ...30 KB (4,379 words) - 10:37, 10 March 2023
- html|title=The Christians Under Turkish Rule|last=Moosa|first=Matti|date=28 April 2012]] Even after the split of the Roman Empire the Church remained ...73 KB (10,603 words) - 12:23, 7 May 2024
- The Principality of Liechtenstein is a tiny, alpine country in Western Europe, bordered by Switzerland to its west and by Austria to its east ...28 KB (4,022 words) - 08:35, 8 March 2023
- for 1595 in which he forecast a peasant uprising, Turkish invasion, and bitter cold, all of which happened and brought him renown. He is known to have ...31 KB (4,812 words) - 07:18, 5 April 2024
- in its very first issues in 1892. Egyptian, Turkish, Iranian, Syrian and Lebanese women and men had been reading European feminist magazines even ...30 KB (4,309 words) - 20:25, 1 April 2023
- cars or take a bus, wear cheap Chinese- or Turkish-import clothes, and save ... five-star high-rise hotels, casinos, Turkish fast food restaurants, American ...51 KB (7,364 words) - 17:17, 5 October 2022
- between Syriac and Arabic, as well as some Turkish and thus in this respect ... [[Image:Turkish Meze Plate.jpg|thumb|400px|A plate of Mezze.]] ...55 KB (7,922 words) - 06:11, 6 March 2023
- Sufism has produced a large body of poetry in Arabic, Turkish, Persian, Kurdish, Urdu, Punjabi and Sindhi. Its poetic gems can be found in every ...29 KB (4,602 words) - 13:45, 28 April 2023
- Greek "Pita" or "Pide" in Turkish. Similar flat breads in other parts of the world include the Indian "Paratha" , the ...33 KB (5,022 words) - 20:42, 9 April 2023
- cast the solid-gold finial that crowned the Turkish master's dome. Chiranjilal, a lapidary from Delhi, was chosen as the chief sculptor and mosaicist ...30 KB (4,795 words) - 03:53, 27 February 2023
- Mikhail Zhirohov and David Nicolle, The Khazars: A Judeo-Turkish Empire on the Steppes, 7th–11th Centuries AD (Osprey Publishing, 2019, ISBN ...31 KB (4,503 words) - 21:00, 3 May 2023
- quot; is most probably derived from the Turkish term Onogur meaning "Ten ... as a national hero, Hunyadi broke the Turkish siege of Belgrade in 1456. ...107 KB (15,967 words) - 21:14, 9 February 2024
- as Africa collided with Eurasia in the Turkish-Arabian region between 19 and 12 Ma (ICS 2004). Subsequent uplift of mountains in the western ...37 KB (5,215 words) - 06:53, 18 April 2024
- Abu ‘Ali Mansur Tāriqu l-Ḥākim, called bi Amr al-Lāh ( الحاكم بأمر الله ; literally "Ruler by God's Command" ...28 KB (4,430 words) - 04:12, 17 June 2023
- 2006). Journalist Perihan Magden was tried by a Turkish court for supporting Tarhan and advocating conscientious objection as a human right; but later ...33 KB (4,966 words) - 18:54, 14 January 2023
- Crusader armies managed to defeat two substantial Turkish forces at Dorylaeum and at Antioch, finally marching to Jerusalem with only a fraction of their ...33 KB (5,138 words) - 15:34, 30 April 2023
- by sea from Rhodes. Napoleon attacked the Turkish beachheads and scored a ... retreated to Egypt, repelling a British-Turkish invasion. Alerted to the ...65 KB (9,639 words) - 10:56, 11 April 2024
- the Sena dynasty, Dhaka was successively ruled by Turkish and Afghan governors descending from the Delhi Sultanate until the arrival of the Mughals in 1608. ...34 KB (4,736 words) - 20:15, 21 January 2023
- accents in determining meter, such as Ottoman Turkish or Vedic, often have concepts similar to the iamb and dactyl to describe common combinations of ...69 KB (10,532 words) - 00:11, 5 March 2023
- and the Ottoman Turks. In the ensuing Russo-Turkish War (1768-1774), Frederick reluctantly supported Catherine with a subsidy of 300,000 rubles, ...32 KB (4,879 words) - 10:28, 11 April 2024
- Leonisa and her lover Ricardo are carried off by Turkish pirates; both fight against serious material and moral dangers; Ricardo conquers all obstacles ...33 KB (5,296 words) - 17:47, 9 November 2022
- and sometimes Mahomet, following the Latin or Turkish), is the founder of Islam—the world's second largest religion. Some Muslims dislike ...64 KB (10,057 words) - 01:48, 11 March 2023
- are said to have included as many as 100,000 Turkish Muslims. Historically, the name "Dracula" is derived from a secret fraternal order ...32 KB (4,917 words) - 22:51, 20 November 2023
- as it would have to be crossed by any Turkish army attacking Egypt when war broke out. Woolley and Lawrence subsequently published a report ...33 KB (5,295 words) - 00:58, 21 April 2023
- #039;s busiest. One of the largest streets in the Turkish capital Ankara — Cinnah Caddesi —is named after him. In Iran, one of the capital Tehran ...37 KB (5,500 words) - 01:48, 11 March 2023
- powers, who had much to say about the "Turkish yoke" and the "Turkish peril" supported Greece but were well aware of the ambiguity ...71 KB (10,085 words) - 19:16, 10 July 2023
- Sabra Follett Meserve, as a Ph.D. candidate in Turkish history in 1961. A handful of women had studied at Princeton as undergraduates from 1963 on ...34 KB (4,932 words) - 00:40, 12 April 2023
- programs each spring semester, concentrating on Turkish language, architectural history, and Islamic studies.[http://www11.georgetown.edu/oip/os/sites/mideast/ ...40 KB (5,605 words) - 08:22, 23 January 2023
- Slovakia (Slovensko), officially the Slovak Republic (Slovak: Slovenská republikais), is a landlocked country in Central Europe with a population ...34 KB (4,824 words) - 22:31, 15 May 2024
- state raised an army of this size in the Greek-Turkish War of 1897 and the First Balkan War in 1912. Unlike the last two mentioned conflicts when only ...77 KB (11,840 words) - 17:01, 27 January 2023
- #16th Panzer Division, deployed behind the Turkish-Bulgarian border to support the Bulgarian forces in case of a Turkish attack.Blau, 81. ...73 KB (10,868 words) - 05:44, 22 September 2023
- The Turkish Government disputed this interpretation of events and maintained that crucial documents supporting the genocide thesis were actually ...35 KB (5,250 words) - 06:50, 18 April 2024
- offered an on board swimming pool, a gymnasium, a Turkish bath, libraries for each passenger class, and a squash court. First-class common rooms were ...33 KB (4,881 words) - 21:06, 16 April 2023
- is related to Turkic Uzbek, Turkish, Tatar and Kazakh, and possibly Korean and Japanese. In the far western parts of the country, where there ...35 KB (5,051 words) - 13:11, 10 March 2023
- as expected. (For example Greek and Turkish military spending does not appear to follow a tit-for-tat iterated-PD arms-race, but is more likely ...41 KB (6,536 words) - 23:01, 30 November 2022
- machines to pump water for the kings of the Turkish Artuqid dynasty and their palaces. The double-acting reciprocating piston pump was instrumental in ...41 KB (5,793 words) - 18:34, 13 February 2024
- genres did, to some extent, exist in both the Turkish folk tradition and in Divan poetry). Roughly speaking, the prose of the Ottoman Empire can ...35 KB (5,051 words) - 18:29, 28 February 2023
- completely from the Black Sea, even from Turkish waters close to the Bosphorus, in 1988." It is also extinct from the Caspian Sea. ...38 KB (5,827 words) - 18:16, 31 October 2023
- The Great Siege of Malta – arrival of the Turkish Fleet. A fresco by Matteo Perez d'Aleccio in the sixteenth century. Probably located in ...35 KB (5,045 words) - 06:40, 5 November 2022
- though some are undergoing initial revivals. The Turkish çeng was a nine-string harp in the Ottoman Empire which became extinct at the end of the 17th ...38 KB (6,027 words) - 20:53, 28 December 2023
- Enver Pasha, supreme commander of the Turkish armed forces, was a very ... Ottoman Empire was followed by strife (the Turkish Independence War) and a ...72 KB (11,195 words) - 13:50, 20 May 2023
- deal with Turkey's national airline, Turkish Airlines, which involved Bryant being in a promotional film to be aired in over 80 countries ...95 KB (13,365 words) - 03:58, 4 March 2023
- near Ephesus—they were ambushed by a Turkish detachment but proceeded to slaughter this force and appropriate their camp instead. ...39 KB (6,271 words) - 00:13, 13 February 2024
- in Turkey and his knowledge of the Turkish suppression of the Kurdish ... Mountain Language (1988) is about the Turkish suppression of the Kurdish ...89 KB (13,120 words) - 22:57, 30 March 2023
- Bratislava is the capital of Slovakia and is its largest city, with a population of 450,000. Before 1920 it went by the German name "Pressburg ...38 KB (5,662 words) - 22:52, 20 November 2023
- = 76.9% Dutch 9.5% other Europeans 2.4% Turkish 2.3% Moroccan 2.1% Indonesian 2% Surinamese 4.8% otherCIA, [https://www.cia.gov/the-world ...42 KB (6,042 words) - 16:24, 11 November 2022
- after the Iranian Revolution, and a Pakistani-Turkish initiative led to the founding of the Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) in 1985. ...40 KB (5,985 words) - 19:54, 7 March 2024
- Mirrikh in both Arabic and Persian, and Merih in Turkish. The etymology of al-Mirrikh is unknown. Ancient Persians named it Bahram, the Zoroastrian god ...47 KB (7,206 words) - 16:13, 6 November 2022
- (100,700), Moroccan (81,763), Spanish (43,802), Turkish (41,336), and German (35,530). ===Religion=== [[Image:Weyden Deposition.jpg|left|thumb ...76 KB (10,944 words) - 08:52, 27 September 2023
- during reconnaissance west of Tripoli behind Turkish lines. It was World War I, however, that marked the airship's real debut as a weapon. ...40 KB (6,108 words) - 07:11, 16 June 2023
- Jihad ( جهاد ) is an Islamic term referring to the religious duty of Muslims to strive, or “struggle” in ways related to Islam, both for ...48 KB (7,155 words) - 12:39, 1 August 2022
- in maps such as the early sixteenth century Turkish Piri Reis map. Even in the late seventeenth century, after explorers had found that South America ...41 KB (6,181 words) - 05:21, 31 July 2023
- alloy is also the traditional alloy for the finest Turkish and Chinese cymbals. Other materials sometimes used for large bells include brass and iron ...42 KB (6,679 words) - 22:00, 26 December 2023
- coffee from bounty captured after the second Turkish siege in 1683. Viennese cafés claim that when the invading Turks left Vienna, they abandoned hundreds ...42 KB (5,917 words) - 20:13, 3 May 2023
- arslān and اصلان aṣlān) is the Turkish and Mongolian word for "lion." It was used as a title by a number of Seljuk and Ottoman ...86 KB (13,304 words) - 17:35, 12 May 2023
- months. The Siege of Pleven during the Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878) proved that hastily constructed field defenses could resist attacks prepared ...44 KB (6,877 words) - 22:27, 15 May 2023
- of Iran. Its closest relatives are Turkish and Turkmen. Russian is commonly spoken as a second language among the urbane. Two percent of the ...40 KB (5,942 words) - 05:17, 26 August 2023
- In the Russo-Turkish War (1877-1878), Russia sought to gain access to the Mediterranean Sea by capturing the Balkan Peninsula from the Ottoman ...42 KB (6,192 words) - 07:45, 12 January 2024
- semantic unit. An example of such a language is Turkish, where for example, the word evlerinizden, or "from your houses", consists of the morphemes ...112 KB (16,049 words) - 21:16, 26 February 2023
- Armenian, Georgian, Persian, Arabic, Turkish, Hebrew, Serbian, Slavonic, Romanian, Hungarian, German, English, Italian, and French. The "Romance ...47 KB (7,410 words) - 20:29, 18 July 2023
- 2.6% Bosnian and Herzegovinian 1.9% Turkish 1.8% Serbian 1.6% Romanian ... were first assembled to consider the Turkish threat. From then, these ...90 KB (13,119 words) - 17:56, 22 August 2023
- of Bursa for less than a year. He was hosted by a Turkish Colonel named Ali Cetiner in his own residence. Later in October 1965 he was allowed to move ...50 KB (7,539 words) - 20:35, 17 April 2023
- Ottoman Emperor Bayezid I and rescued Europe from Turkish conquest. The Timurid Empire lasted from 1370 to 1506, when the last Timurid ruler of Herat ...43 KB (6,221 words) - 00:52, 21 April 2023
- after the defeat of Greece during the Greco-Turkish War of 1919–1922, and the ensuing population exchange between Greece and Turkey created different ...54 KB (8,047 words) - 01:58, 9 January 2023
- belonged to Iraq; on the other hand, the new Turkish republic claimed the province as part of its historic heartland. A three person League of Nations ...54 KB (8,084 words) - 06:07, 6 March 2023
- Turkey:721 deadKorean War.com, Turkish Brigade.2,111 wounded168 MIA216 POW Canada516 deadVeterans Affairs Canada, [http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca/remembers/sub ...51 KB (7,713 words) - 04:35, 4 March 2023
- Switzerland, ( Schweiz , Suisse , Svizzera , Svizra ), officially Swiss Confederation ("Confoederatio Helvetica" in Latin and when abbreviated: ...52 KB (7,532 words) - 14:19, 28 April 2023
- Whereas European colonialism and to a lesser extent Turkish nationalism in the Ottoman Empire was the main spur in forming national identities ...51 KB (7,390 words) - 17:16, 4 May 2023
- regions, rebellions, and Persian and Turkish invasions weakened the regions, reducing the population to 250,000 inhabitants at one point. ...46 KB (6,605 words) - 20:12, 4 September 2023
- The Scramble for Africa (or the Race for Africa) was the proliferation of conflicting European claims to African territory during the New Imperialism ...50 KB (7,409 words) - 17:29, 25 January 2023
- quot;the members of his entourage proceeded to buy Turkish and Ethiopian slave girls, singing girls and garments, so that the rate of the gold dinar fell ...52 KB (8,425 words) - 06:37, 5 November 2022
- German president Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan and former United States president Bill Clinton). The day was ...53 KB (7,676 words) - 16:40, 16 August 2023
- too, peoples whose languages—such as Persian, Turkish, and Urdu—were written in the Arabic script. Islamic art is also characterized by a ...53 KB (8,177 words) - 05:51, 16 June 2023
- Khalaj West of the Oxus; excerpts from "The Turkish Dialect of the Khalaj," Bulletin of the School of Oriental Studies University of London ...61 KB (8,656 words) - 18:55, 23 March 2023
- of the eleventh century, Merv was overrun by the Turkish tribes of the Ghuzz from beyond the Oxus. After mixing with the settled peoples in Turkmenistan ...47 KB (6,838 words) - 00:25, 3 May 2023
- of Nanna), Middle Bronze Age remains at Syrian-Turkish sites of Ebla, Mari, Alalakh, Aleppo, and Kultepe, Late Bronze Age palaces at Hattusa, Ugarit, ...54 KB (7,940 words) - 19:20, 25 March 2024
- In July 1964, Shah Pahlavi, Turkish President Cemal Gürsel and Pakistani President Ayub Khan announced in Istanbul the establishment of the ...53 KB (8,258 words) - 19:29, 9 November 2022
- Some Libyans are descended from marriages of Turkish soldiers to Libyan women. Black Libyans are descendants of slaves brought to the country ...53 KB (7,788 words) - 11:06, 7 March 2023
- central and western Europe to Aegean Sea and Turkish straits. The nation shared borders with Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, Greece, Hungary, Italy, and Romania. ...62 KB (9,032 words) - 21:37, 4 June 2023
- " Others choose specific events, such as the Turkish capture of Constantinople or the end of the Anglo-French Hundred Years' War (both 1453 ...60 KB (9,144 words) - 10:41, 10 March 2023
- Louis XIV (Louis-Dieudonné) (September 5, 1638 – September 1, 1715) ruled as King of France and of Navarre from May 14, 1643 until his death ...62 KB (10,084 words) - 04:10, 4 November 2022
- . Over the next 16 years (in the "Great Turkish War") the Turks would be permanently driven south of the Danube River, never to threaten ...62 KB (8,547 words) - 08:32, 24 November 2022
- Bombards were of value mainly in sieges, a famous Turkish example used at the siege of Constantinople in 1453 massed 19 tons, took 200 men and sixty oxen ...76 KB (11,884 words) - 17:42, 16 August 2023
- 540,000 troops. A further 100,000 Turkish troops were deployed along the common border of Turkey and Iraq, which caused significant force dilution ...62 KB (9,530 words) - 08:21, 8 January 2024
- region. In March 1925, the British-controlled Turkish Petroleum Company, that had held concessionary rights to the Mosul province, was renamed as the ...56 KB (8,476 words) - 13:04, 6 March 2024
- times. [https://www.memri.org/reports/antisemitism-turkish-media-part-1#_edn3 Antisemitism in the Turkish Media: Part 1] MEMRI (April 28, 2005). Retrieved ...66 KB (9,730 words) - 23:42, 22 October 2023
- upon, and expanded by North African, Turkish, Yemenite, and Asian scholars from the sixteenth century onward. Among the most famous was the ...68 KB (10,629 words) - 21:49, 4 October 2022
- legacy of Rome at various times; the Seljuk Turkish name for the Sultan was "Sultan of Rum", indicating their belief they were the legitimate ...70 KB (11,213 words) - 04:50, 16 December 2022
- century, after the religious wars and Turkish threat, German culture flowered. The princes centralized their governments, established mercantile ...115 KB (16,736 words) - 17:52, 14 December 2023
- Gujarati, Hindi, Punjabi, Urdu, Bengali, Cantonese, Turkish and Polish. The United Kingdom has the largest number of Hindi and Punjabi speakers outside Asia. ...123 KB (18,096 words) - 11:41, 3 May 2023
- which they believed necessary to prevent a Turkish attack on Egypt (see Best 2001: 63). The initial idea, though, had been his own. In contrast ...65 KB (10,388 words) - 23:13, 17 May 2023
- to Europe, as was the case with Huns and Turkish Avars. A Turkic people, ... again clashed in the Balkans. The Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878) was popular ...137 KB (20,217 words) - 18:16, 22 December 2022
- treaty of Andrusovo (1667), with the help of Turkish intervention due to their claims in the Crimea. The Deluge stopped the era of Polish tolerance ...71 KB (10,329 words) - 17:32, 2 January 2024
- The most famous corsair was the Turkish Barbarossa ("Redbeard"). According to Robert Davis between 1 million and 1.25 million Europeans ...78 KB (11,731 words) - 19:08, 7 February 2023
- February 1929. His first station in exile was the Turkish island of Prinkipo (now Büyükada) off the Istanbul coast, where he stayed four years. There ...93 KB (14,349 words) - 07:47, 6 March 2023
- occupied the Levant following the defeat of Turkish forces at the Battle of Megiddo in September 1918. At the subsequent 1919 Paris Peace Conference and ...86 KB (12,843 words) - 06:24, 18 November 2022
- Bengali, Tamil, Punjabi, Urdu, Polish, Greek, Turkish, and Cantonese, as well as Romany. Despite the relatively small size of the nation, there ...103 KB (15,568 words) - 18:34, 13 February 2024
- The most famous corsair was the Turkish Barbarossa ("Redbeard"). According to Robert Davis between 1 million and 1.25 million Europeans ...115 KB (17,210 words) - 19:06, 7 February 2023
