The Editors of Encyclopaedia BritannicaThe Ottoman Empire began at the very end of the 13th century with a series of raids from Turkic warriors (known as ghazis) led by Osman I, a prince (bey) whose father, Ertugrul, had established a power base in Söğüt (near Bursa, Turkey). Osm...
The crashed Kittyhawk in the picture above was spotted accidentally in the Sahara Desert after laying there for over five decades. The plane was discovered by a Polish oil company worker in early 2012 and is believed to belong to the 24-year-old Flt Sgt Dennis Copping. He...
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Bin Laden's arguments were based on a naïve view of America. The United States was not going to pull out of the Middle East because we were attacked in Washington or New York. Bin Laden believed that the US was so weak that an attack, on the scale of 9/...
The Ottoman Empire was older than any of the European empires. Its origins went back to the dying days of the thirteenth century when an obscure Turkish tribal leader called Osman had a dream.doi:10.1057/9781137522023_7M. E. McMillanPalgrave Macmillan US...
Malhun Hatun (also called Mal Hatun; d. November 1326) was the first wife of Osman I, the leader of the Ottoman Turks and the founder of the dynasty that established and ruled the Ottoman Empire. She was the mother of Sultan Orhan. Does Aykiz marry Turgut? There wasn't a single dr...
In Bulgaria, as part of the Ottoman Empire, homosexuality was legalized in 1858, but after its liberation it was again criminalized. In 1968 it was legalized again because it was considered a involuntary and painfully disease, but not a crime. At present Bulgarian society is in a process of...
Afghanistan was a key site of Greco-Buddhism, a variant of the Eastern religion which flourished in the Greco-Bactrian kingdom that was established in Alexander's wake. Later, the Afghan town of Bamiyan lay on the legendary Silk Road, becoming exposed to cultural interchange between East and ...
‘the public interest will be served by the refusal or revocation of such license,’” the letter said. “In carrying out this statutory mandate under the Communications Act, FCC has years-long established processes and procedures for adjudicating broadcast licenses in such situations, most ...
the First World War, Britain used the Islamic world to complete the dismantling of the Ottoman Empire. This Arab Revolt against their Ottoman rulers cleared the way for the Sykes-Picot Agreement, a secret agreement which carved up the Middle East between England and France...