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  • political leader who was the chief architect of the Constitution of India. spent his life fighting against the system of Hindu untouchability and the ...
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  • Ants are insects of the family Formicidae. They, along with the related ... Ants are one of the world's most successful and diverse animal ...
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  • The Sudan (officially Republic of Sudan) is a country in Northeast ... the United Kingdom in 1956. The remainder of the twentieth century saw two ...
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  • The Hanseatic League (also known as the Hansa) was an alliance of ... waged war but favored peace. The making of war and peace was discussed ...
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  • French: [ʒiʁɔ̃dɛ̃], or Girondists, were a group of loosely affiliated ... Like the Montagnards, they initially were part of the Jacobin movement ...
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  • Jews have lived in Germany for over 1700 years, through both periods ... Following the victimization of what was probably the most assimilated ...
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  • in Indian culture and based on teachings of the Vedas. Hinduism is the ... taught at universities results from the work of the theosophist, Annie Besant ...
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  • The Art of War ( 孫子兵法 Tzu ("Master Sun"), is composed of 13 chapters. Each one is devoted ...
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  • main_interests = Aesthetics, History of Western Philosophy, Metaphilosophy ... without organs, deterritorialization, line of flight, nomad thought, plane ...
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  • | affiliations = Association of Jesuit Colleges | fightsong ... the U.S. Civil War under the leadership of university president Patrick ...
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  • Church in full communion with the Bishop of Rome, currently Pope Benedict ... Church and the largest organized body of any world religion. ...
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  • ; Postal map spelling: Kiangsu) is a province of the People's ... its southern parts. Since the inception of economic reforms in 1978, Jiangsu ...
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  • public figure. He served as the Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations ... While widely recognized as a leading representative of Judaism in ...
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  • He was a founding member and one-time leader of the Communist Party of Italy ... Gramsci wrote more than 30 notebooks and 3,000 pages of history and ...
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  • region, excluding Scandinavia and most of Russia, but including the easternmost ... among the different Inuit and Yupik groups. Of particular note are their shamanistic ...
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  • A dictatorship is a form of government which is characterized by a ... America. The twentieth century saw the rise of fascist and communist dictatorships ...
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  • Malaysia is a federation of 13 states in Southeast Asia. ... The name "Malaysia" was adopted in 1963 when the Federation ...
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  • A transistor is a semiconductor device that uses a small amount of ... field effect transistors (FETs). Application of current in BJTs and voltage ...
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  • by Charles Hardinge, 1st Baron Hardinge of Penshurst.]] ... known as Calcutta), which became part of post-independence India. A ...
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  • as the Prime Minister and de facto dictator of Portugal from 1932 to 1968 ... Franco, some regard him as champion of traditional values, including ...
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  • Equatorial Guinea, officially the Republic of Equatorial Guinea, is ... rapid economic growth due to the discovery of large offshore petroleum reserves ...
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  • Brooklyn (named after the Dutch town Breukelen) is one of the five ... (after New York County, which is the borough of Manhattan). ...
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  • notable_ideas = Problem of causation, Induction, Is-ought problem | ... the third, the most radical and, in the eyes of many, the most important of ...
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  • ) (born 1058 C.E. in Tus, Khorasan province of Persia in modern day Iran; ... Al-Ghazali condemned the earlier attempts of Al-Farabi and Avicenna ...
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  • the Latin or Turkish), is the founder of Islam—the world's second ... and Medina are cities in the Hejaz region of present day Saudi Arabia. He ...
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  • It occupies a continental surface area of 1,078,000 square miles (2 ... silver, and was based upon the legend of Sierra del Plata—a mountain ...
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  • Japan. This festival is held on the 15th day of the 8th month of the lunar ... festival. These cakes, named after the shape of the full moon, reflects the ...
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  • one" or "March 1") was one of the earliest manifestations ... demonstrations failed to accomplish the goal of effecting independence, they ...
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  • The Yi Jing ("Book of Changes" or "Classic of Changes ... Though the Yi Jing is often cryptic to the point of obscurity (especially ...
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  • structure in vertebrates that consists of a bundle of nervous tissue ... The spinal cord functions primarily in the transmission of neural ...
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  • and regulate one's conduct in view of norms, is an essential attribute ... In classical religious and philosophical treatments of responsibility ...
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  • The Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 culminating in the Tiananmen ... The protests were sparked by the death of pro-market and pro-democracy ...
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  • Turkey, known officially as the Republic of Turkey (Türkiye Cumhuriyeti ... Turkey also contains the Sea of Marmara, which is used by geographers ...
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  • to God" is a monotheistic faith, one of the Abrahamic religions, and ... Muhammad, the prophet of Islam, governed the first Muslim ummah (nation ...
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  • The Middle Ages form the middle period in a traditional division of ... With the demise of centralized Roman government in the West, trade ...
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  • Mansūr Nizār al-Azīz (975-996) at the age of 11 on October 14, 996 with ... Initially, Barjawan, his wasita (the equivalent of a vizier, as intermediary ...
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  • Anarchism is a political philosophy and movement that is skeptical ... hierarchies long before the establishment of formal states, realms, or empires ...
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  • vary in size from a handful to many hundreds of individuals. There are as many ... daily basis. In turn, AA offers a community of recovering people who support ...
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  • This article is about the nation of Georgia. For the U.S. state, see ... officially from 1990 to 1995 as the Republic of Georgia, is a country to the ...
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  • The Crusades were a series of military campaigns first inaugurated ... Few contemporary Muslim accounts exist of the crusades, which were ...
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  • Refugee was defined as a legal group in response to the large numbers ... refugee protection is the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner ...
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  • | order=16th President of the United States | date1=March 4, 1861 ... | date of birth=February 12, 1809 | place of birth=Hardin County, Kentucky ...
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  • Bulgaria, officially the Republic of Bulgaria, is a country in south ... by Greeks and Romans. It is a successor of the powerful European Bulgarian ...
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  • used in the development and functioning of all known living organisms ... Chemically, DNA is a long polymer of simple units called nucleotides ...
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  • Zambia, officially the Republic of Zambia, is a landlocked country ... quot; was applied to the Ndebele territory of Zimbabwe. Rhodesia was then ...
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  • The meaning of the word truth extends from honesty, good faith, and ... is also understood not only as a matter of conceptual understanding, but ...
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  • The Industrial Revolution was a transformation of human life circumstances ... human history, comparable to the invention of farming or the rise of the ...
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  • An Indian reservation in the United States is an area of land managed ... President Andrew Jackson after the passage of the Indian Removal Act of 1830 ...
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  • 250px|Increasingly the world is thought of as a whole]] Globalization, as a concept, refers both to the "shrinking" ...
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  • and the United States, that is composed of multiple far-left, autonomous ... Antifaschistische Aktion inspired a variety of different movements, groups ...
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  • anthropology, polygamy is the practice of marriage to more than one spouse ... other's needs and hopes in a relationship of true love. ...
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  • Music is an auditory art comprised of meaningful arrangements of sounds ... Generally, music is known through the cognition of specific arrangements ...
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  • country in Central Europe with a population of over five million, bordering ... The eight hundred years of Hungarian oppression was openly confronted ...
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  • genesis%2011;&version=31; Chapter 11] of the Bible, the Tower of Babel ( ... humanity. God, observing the arrogance of humanity, resolves to confuse ...
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  • Arabic word for Islamic law, also known as the Law of Allah. It shows one of many ways that humanity strives to harmonize and maintain ...
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  • danse 1874.jpg|right|200px|thumb|An artifact of "high culture": a ... or to honor), generally refers to patterns of human activity and the symbolic ...
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  • Jamaica is an island nation of the West Indies. The third largest ... island Xaymaca (Jamaica), meaning "Land of Wood and Water." Christopher ...
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  • Baroque music describes an era and a set of styles of European classical ... to the idea that music, mathematics and science possessed cosmic relationships ...
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  • |+Prime Minister of the United Kingdom |Periods in Office: ... |Place of Birth: |Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, Oxfordshire|Woodstock ...
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  • Honduras, officially Republic of Honduras (República de Honduras ... the south by the Pacific Ocean at the Gulf of Fonseca, and to the north by ...
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  • The Republic of India (Hindi: भारत गणराज्य ... name for the Indus River. The Constitution of India and common usage in Hindi ...
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  • and endless debate as the topic of God. In the English language ... Throughout history, the vast majority of people in the world have ...
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  • In biological terms, a human being, or human, is any member of the ... Psychologically, humans have a highly developed brain capable of abstract ...
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  • all wars. Some question the appropriateness of the term “world war” because ... The legacy of the war, in many respects, was World War II, which was ...
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  • in northeast Spain. It covers an area of 12,399 square miles (32,113 ... an older history as an independent territory of the Crown of Aragon, which ...
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  • philosophy, primarily on the foundations of logic, the philosophy of mathematics ... Wittgenstein is widely regarded as having been one of the most influential ...
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  • at its capital in Constantinople. Much of this territory had first fallen ... There is no consensus on the starting date of the Byzantine period ...
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  • Conservative politician and prime minister of the United Kingdom from 1937 ... Chamberlain is perhaps the most ill-regarded British prime minister ...
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  • – September 28, 1970) was the president of Egypt from 1956 until his death ... Nasser is seen as one of the most important political figures in recent ...
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  • – May 27, 1964) was a political leader of the Indian National Congress ... As the son of the wealthy Indian barrister and politician Motilal ...
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  • Democracy is the name given to a number of forms of government and ... Democracy is also a peaceful way for a group of any size to settle ...
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  • Hungary, officially in English the Republic of Hungary, is a landlocked ... After a Celtic and a Roman period, the foundation of Hungary was laid ...
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  • to his or her disadvantage through the use of “soft” techniques such ... The origins of tai chi chuan are known only through legend and speculation ...
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  • May 2, 1997 to June 27, 2007. He was Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 ... election victories. Gordon Brown, Chancellor of the Exchequer during all Blair ...
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  • producer, head writer, showrunner, and host of the preschool television series ... area shows for youth. Over the course of three decades, Rogers became ...
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  • different Republican presidents and is one of only two people to have held ... In 1970, he became the first director of the Office of Management ...
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  • - November 30, 2018) was the 41st president of the United States of America ... During the final days of the Cold War, he was responsible for managing ...
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  • best known during his own lifetime as one of the leading orchestral and ... Gesellen (usually rendered as 'Songs of a Wayfarer', but literally ...
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  • [[Image:Caslon-schriftmusterblatt.jpeg|thumb|right|250px|A specimen ... Typography is the art and technique of arranging type, type design ...
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  • born October 1, 1924) was the 39th President of the United States (1977–1981 ... As President, his major accomplishments included the consolidation ...
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  • The Kingdom of Belgium is a country in northwest Europe bordered by ... Flanders in the north, with 58 percent of the population, and the French ...
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  • Philosophy of religion is the application of the philosophical method ... A composite discipline and one of the many “philosophies of ...
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  • philosophy refers to the belief that a part of a living being survives death ... The monotheistic religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam generally ...
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  • colonial administration that lasted from 1952 to 1960. The core of ... the British always represented as a series of lawless acts by dangerous criminal ...
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  • " and Janapada "foothold of a tribe," "country ... Most of the historical details about the Mahajanapadas are culled ...
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  • The Democratic Republic of the Congo, often referred to as DRC or ... Formerly the colony of Belgian Congo, the country's post-independence ...
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  • Polish Republic or Republic (Commonwealth) of the Two (Both) Nations (Peoples), ( ... ) or as the "First Republic," was one of the largest and ...
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  • Civil War. While not necessarily a supporter of the abolition of slavery, his ... McClellan's Peninsula Campaign of 1862 ended in failure, retreating ...
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  • The United States House of Representatives is the larger of the two ... The House meets in the south wing of the United States Capitol. The ...
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  • Tajikistan, officially the Republic of Tajikistan, is a mountainous ... and 660,000 displaced, and all but 25,000 of the more than 400,000 ethnic ...
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  • Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, a country in ... federal republic, historically consisting of several sovereign states with ...
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  • World War II between the global superpowers of the Soviet Union and the United ... Instead, the "war" took the form of an arms race involving nuclear ...
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  • ), officially the Republic of Austria ( Republik Österreich ... The origins of modern Austria date back to the ninth century, when ...
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  • on August 19, 1946), was the 42nd President of the United States, serving ... United States experienced the longest period of peacetime economic expansion ...
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  • Language 32 (1) (Jan-Mar 1956): 5, India as a Lingustic Area. quote ... The art and architecture of the Tamil people encompass some of the ...
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  • from 1962 until his death in 2009. A member of the Democratic Party and the ... incident in 1969 resulted in the death of his automobile passenger, Mary ...
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  • island country that sits off the east coast of Asia. Japan comprises over ... that people were living on the islands of Japan as early as 35,000 B ...
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  • Romanum) is used to denote that part of the world under Roman rule ... the Roman Empire is disputed, with the dates of Julius Caesar's appointment ...
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  • painter, urban planner, writer, and one of the pioneers of what is now ... Dedicated to providing better living conditions for the residents ...
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  • ) is a part of the United Kingdom lying in the northeast of the island ... Northern Ireland has been for many years the site of a violent and ...
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  • 1878 until 1918, Montenegro was later a part of various incarnations of Yugoslavia ... Based on the results of a referendum, Montenegro declared independence ...
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  • The Republic of Ireland, often referred to as simply Ireland, is a ... More than 40 million Americans, and millions of others around the ...
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  • The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (commonly ... Ireland—with King Charles III as head of state. He is also head of state ...
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  • Iran (ايران, Īrān), officially the Islamic Republic of Iran ... The history of Iran covers over four thousand years. Throughout history ...
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  • The United States of America—also referred to as the United States ... or (archaically) Columbia–is a federal republic of 50 states and ...
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  • There was systematic political abuse of psychiatry in the Soviet Union, ... based on the interpretation of political opposition or dissent as ...
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  • revolutionary and a founding father of the People's Republic ... Born the son of a wealthy farmer in Shaoshan, Hunan, Mao adopted a ...
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  • and revolutionary. He governed the Republic of Cuba for 47 years as Prime ... and counter-revolution, including the Bay of Pigs Invasion of 1961. In response ...
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  • Spain, officially the Kingdom of Spain ( Reino de España (both bordering Morocco). It is the largest of the three sovereign nations ...
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  • site in Istanbul, Turkey. The last of three church buildings to be ... Eastern Orthodox until the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople in 1453. It ...
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