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...A classic of victorian travel writing, Kinglake’s book describes his journey through the Ottoman empire to Cairo, and his residence there in time of plague. [Summary by hefyd]...

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...hat Byron completed in the year before his death at the age of 36 in Messolonghi, Greece, where he had gone to fight for the nationalists against the Ottoman Empire. Juan, now in England, is invited to spend the autumn with a hunting party at the ancient country seat of Lord Henry and Lady Adeline Amundeville. There, he meets the most intriguing of the Byronic heroines, Au...

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...that successfully fought against the main threat for the existence of Romanian provinces (Walachia, Transylvania, Moldavia) during the centuries: the Ottoman Empire. Since the end of XIII century until the beginning of XX century (1922), the Ottoman Empire represented great administrative and military force in the world, developing its domination from Middle Orient, Elbrus...

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... (1589) is an original story of religious conflict, intrigue, and revenge, set against a backdrop of the struggle for supremacy between Spain and the Ottoman Empire in the Mediterranean. The Jew of Malta is considered to have been a major influence on William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice . The play contains a prologue in which the character Machiavel, a Senecan gho...

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...e pioneers of modern Hebrew literature. Born to a poor family, Brenner grew up in grinding poverty. Brenner immigrated to Palestine (then part of the Ottoman Empire) in 1909. He worked as a farmer, eager to put his Zionist ideology into practice. Later he devoted himself to literature and teaching at the Gymnasia Herzliya in Tel Aviv. He was murdered in southern Tel Aviv i...

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...he pioneers of modern Hebrew literature. Born to a poor family, Brenner grew up in grinding povery. Brenner immigrated to Palestine (then part of the Ottoman Empire) in 1909. He worked as a farmer, eager to put his Zionist idelogy into practice. Later he devoted himself to literature and teaching at the Gymnasia Herzliya in Tel Aviv. He was murdered in southern Tel Aviv in...

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... Yüzyılda Bosna’da Müslüman Doğu ile Kültürel İletişim: Kısa Bir İnceleme Fikret Karčić 195 Osmanlı Döneminde Tarihî Romanya’da İslam Islam in the Ottoman Era in Historical Romania Mihai Maxim 213 Applied Environmental Ethics in Ottoman Legal System in the Multi-Religious Balkans: The Case of Bitola (Macedonia) with Reference to the Sijillāt al-Shar῾iyyah Çok Dinli ...

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...ervice of the United States in Constantinople, (today Istanbul), are an important primary historical resource for the study of the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire and the Armenian Genocide. During this genocide, approximately 1,500,000 Armenians living in Anatolia were murdered in an attempt to rid Turkey of its non-Turkish populations. Mr. Morgenthau left Turkey a frust...

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... Yeni Balkanlar: Son Yüzyıldan Alınan Dersler ve Üçüncü Bin Yıllık Dönemin Bakış Açısı Ali Payaziti 27 Representations of contemporary Turkey, the Ottoman Empire, Islam, and gender through the phenomenon of modern pop culture the case of Turkish soap operas in the Western Balkans Çağdaş Pop Kültürü Aracılığı ile Çağdaş Türkiye, Osmanlı Devleti, İslam ve Toplumsal Ci...

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...Aliya İzzetbegoviç 69 Balkanlar’da İslâm Islam in the Balkans Kemal Karpat 93 Stefan Duşan’dan Osmanlı İmparatorluğu’na From Stefan Duşan to the Ottoman Empire Halil İnalcık .129 Birlikte Yaşama Ahlakı ve Hukuku Ethics and Law of Co-existence Mehmet Görmez 175 Uluslararasi İlişkilerde Ahlaki Boyut Ethical Dimension in IR Theory Muhammet Faruk Çakır 191 “They” ...

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...The Post-Ottoman Balkans as a Foreign Country Yabancı Ülke Olarak Osmanlı Sonrası Balkanlar Božidar Jezernik 9 Bosnian Muslims and Their Educational Dillemas in the Austro-Hungarian Period (1878-1918) Bosnalı Müslümanlar ve Avust...

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...ims. They were not headed for Canterbury, Rome or Jerusalem. Rather, they were headed for an historical but remote prison-city in a far corner of the Ottoman Empire. ‘Akká (Akko), now a city in Israel which attracts thousands of Bahá’í pilgrims each year, was but little thought of in that early period. It was originally the final place of exile and imprisonment for Bahá’u’...

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... overpowering horror. But the spirit of the former vision is the subversion of the four empires by the saints, the spirit of this vision is the oppr... ... the Protestants, it was cherished as the ground of belief, that the Pope and the papal empire was the beast: and now it is beginning to be known fr... ...of the trumpets which affect the eastern as the seals do the western half of the fourth empire, and also to make room for the parallel history of the... ...plying more and more; I behold the Christian Church in bondage to the Apostolical Roman Empire, and I behold the spirit of infidelity fast dissolving... ...n to stand before the Lord: again, when I look at succession, I perceive the four great empires exactly foretold, and the character and conditions o... ...thousand years, without, as it were, taking a step or movement beyond; for although the Ottoman princes, who professed that religion, have made great...

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...ing was not allowed by the British government to address the British people and the Empire through the BBC. The government's constitutional expe... ...rished. The Armenians were also raided by Kurdish tribesmen on a regular basis. An Ottoman military tribunal, convened between 1919-21, even convic... ... to cease its mistreatment of the Armenians. This intervention was resented by the Ottoman authorities. By 1915, Armenian calls for autonomy were d... ...n the war - prevented the Turks for deporting the urban Armenian population in the Ottoman Empire's major cities. Today there are less than 60,000 ... ...r - prevented the Turks for deporting the urban Armenian population in the Ottoman Empire's major cities. Today there are less than 60,000 Armenian... ...95 million people), India (131 million), Russia (33 million), France (27 million), Ottoman Empire (21 million), Germany (14 million), Spain (11 mil... ...on people), India (131 million), Russia (33 million), France (27 million), Ottoman Empire (21 million), Germany (14 million), Spain (11 million), B... ...xecuted 40 Senators for treason. Nero even helped the Jews - a scourge of the Roman empire - and rehabilitated disaster-stricken cities. But the... ... appeared as an actor, lyre player and charioteer in religious dramas all over the empire, sometimes absent from Rome for as long as 15 months at a...

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... United States III. Islam and Liberalism IV. The New Rome - America, the Reluctant Empire V. The Democratic Ideal and New Colonialism VI. Add Me t... ...ericanism By: Dr. Sam Vaknin The United States is one of the last remaining land empires. That it is made the butt of opprobrium and odium is har... ...it is made the butt of opprobrium and odium is hardly surprising, or unprecedented. Empires - Rome, the British, the Ottomans - were always targeted... ...and odium is hardly surprising, or unprecedented. Empires - Rome, the British, the Ottomans - were always targeted by the disgruntled, the disenfra... ...ty emerges. Also Read: The Semi-failed State The Second Civil War The Reluctant Empire To Give with Grace In God We Trust The Sergeant and the Gi... ...o rampant mercenaries, erstwhile "allies" turned bitter enemies. At its peak, the Ottoman Empire ruled most of the Balkan, up to the very gates of... ...Africa including Algeria, and most of the Arab Peninsula. It lasted 600 years. The Ottomans invaded Europe while still serving as a proxy army of m... ...des of the twentieth century. Not unlike the Moslem Afghani warriors of 1989, the Ottomans, too, turned on their benefactors and brought on the de... ...mise of Byzantium after 1000 years of uninterrupted existence as a superpower. The Ottomans were named after Osman I, the Oguz (Turkmen) tribal lea...

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...o so, the Turks disembowelled him to death and decapitated the writhing rump. The Ottomans granted independence to Bulgaria in the 1878 Treaty of ... ...gn powers in foreign-run and owned schools. Then they set about a typical infandous Ottoman orgy of shredded entrails, gang raped corpses of young g... ...ants. Further confusion awaited. In 1897, following the Crete uprising against the Ottoman rule and in favour of Greek enosis (unification), Turkey... ...posed to these atrocities, the more one is prone to subscribe to the view that the Ottoman Empire - its halting and half hearted efforts at reform ... ...o these atrocities, the more one is prone to subscribe to the view that the Ottoman Empire - its halting and half hearted efforts at reform notwiths... ...... Resen (Resana). Let it be clear: this author harbours no sympathy towards the Ottoman Empire. The IMRO was fighting for lofty ideals (Balkania... ...n (Resana). Let it be clear: this author harbours no sympathy towards the Ottoman Empire. The IMRO was fighting for lofty ideals (Balkanian federa... ...acedonia-born officer Ataturk. And it facilitated the disintegration of the Ottoman empire - thus, ironically, leading to the independence of almost... ...no less - if not more - than any other nation to the re-distribution of the Ottoman Empire. The cynicism, the hypocrisy, the off-handedness, the ign...

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... economic miracle turns out to have been a fraud- laced bubble. Loosely-held empires disintegrate. Laboriously assembled business conglomerates go to... ...nations that inhabit the territories that once belonged to Byzantium or the Ottoman Empire). Cultures and civilizations which frown upon individua... ...hat inhabit the territories that once belonged to Byzantium or the Ottoman Empire). Cultures and civilizations which frown upon individualism and ... ...economic miracle turns out to have been a fraud-laced bubble. Loosely-held empires disintegrate. Laboriously assembled business conglomerates go to... ...w Colonialism A Dialog about Anti-Semitism Return Putin and Russia's Second Empire History teaches us little except how little we can learn from it.... ...lming and instructive. Overview Karl Marx regarded Louis-Napoleon's Second Empire as the first modern dictatorship - supported by the middle and u...

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...the famous "oligarchs" (robber barons) that absconded with the bulk of the defunct empire's assets were - you guessed it - Jews. The Jewish Respo... ...n 1956. The Anti-Israeli: This volatile mixture of ideological racism, Messianic empire-building, malignant theocracy much resented by the vast m... ...ing and potentially useful insights. The Barbarian conquest of the teetering Roman Empire (410-476 AD) heralded five centuries of existential inse... ...ured well into the twentieth century. It was entrenched in the legal systems of the Ottoman Empire and of Czarist Russia. Elements of feudalism surv... ...l into the twentieth century. It was entrenched in the legal systems of the Ottoman Empire and of Czarist Russia. Elements of feudalism survived in ... ... users. Few doubt that legalizing most drugs would have a beneficial effect. Crime empires would crumble overnight, users would be assured of the q... ...and Russia recognized the East-West divide. The implosion of the four empires - the Ottoman, Habsburg, Hohenzollern and Romanov - following the fir...

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...the famous "oligarchs" (robber barons) that absconded with the bulk of the defunct empire's assets were - you guessed it - Jews. The Jewish Respo... ...n 1956. The Anti-Israeli: This volatile mixture of ideological racism, Messianic empire-building, malignant theocracy much resented by the vast m... ...ing and potentially useful insights. The Barbarian conquest of the teetering Roman Empire (410-476 AD) heralded five centuries of existential inse... ...ured well into the twentieth century. It was entrenched in the legal systems of the Ottoman Empire and of Czarist Russia. Elements of feudalism surv... ...l into the twentieth century. It was entrenched in the legal systems of the Ottoman Empire and of Czarist Russia. Elements of feudalism survived in ... ... users. Few doubt that legalizing most drugs would have a beneficial effect. Crime empires would crumble overnight, users would be assured of the q... ...and Russia recognized the East-West divide. The implosion of the four empires - the Ottoman, Habsburg, Hohenzollern and Romanov - following the fir...

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...er were it you should lose your life, than being taken prisoner, lose your Empire and all.' Then doth she shew the utmost of her power, when for her ... ...wealth is but in hard condition, if none but myselfe hinder thee from the Empire. Thou canst not so much as defend thine owne hous and didst but lat... ... and with such munition he sent him, being yet verie young, to subdue the Empire of the world, only with 30000. footmen, 4000. horsemen, and 42000. C... ...he not to be a right artist? Constantine, the sonne of Helen, founded the Empire of Constantinople, and so, many ages after, Constantine the sonne o... ...s but a man at all assaies: And if of himselfe he be a man ill-borne, the Empire of the whole world cannot restore him. -----p... ... meanes of negotiation by the example of this infidelitie. Soliman of the Ottomans race (a race little regarding the keeping of promises or performa...