(seventh century), and Ottoman Turks, who held it from 1516 until World War I. As Transjordan the country became part of the British mandate of Palestine in 1920, gaining independence in 1946. It was renamed Jordan in 1949 after acquiring the West Bank, which it later renounced in 1974....
Ahmed Bey Zogolli or Ahmed Zogu in 1895, the son of an Albanian chief, when the country was still part of the Ottoman empire. Order broke down during the First World War as other Balkan countries tried to seize areas of Albania. From 1920 there was a succession of short-lived ...
A country of southwest Asia in northwest Arabia. Inhabited in ancient times by various Semitic peoples such as the Moabites and the Nabataeans, the area was conquered by the Romans (first centuryad), Arabs (seventh century), and Ottoman Turks, who held it from 1516 until World War I. As...
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known as Ibn Saud, he was born on January 15, 1876, inRiyadh,Emirate of Nejd, now in theKingdom of Saudi Arabia. His parents wereAbdul Rahman bin Faisal Al Saud, Emir of Nejd(1845 – 1928), and Princess Sarah bint Ahmed Al-Sudairy (died 1910), one of his father’s nine wives....
Dǝlmä Nǝgśa was appointed a regional governor by her father; she built a large church in Gayǝnt, in the borderland district of Bägemdǝr province; see Ahmed Hassen Omer, ‘Gayǝnt’, inEAe2 (2005), 716–17. It followed a basilican layout and was built from huge ...
Jordan Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi to hold talks with Syria's new leader Ahmed al-Sharaa•Dec. 22, 2024, 6:04 PM ET (The Hindu) Jordan,ArabcountryofSouthwest Asia, in the rocky desert of the northernArabianPeninsula. 1 of 2
forced Bethlen to take refuge with the Turks. The Ottoman sultanAhmed I, suzerain of Transylvania, provided Bethlen with an army and proclaimed him prince of Transylvania. When Báthory was driven from power, Bethlen was proclaimed prince by a Diet atKolozsvárin 1613. Bethlen did much to ...