Who established the Holy Roman Empire? Who was the Byzantine emperor during the First Crusade? Who created the Mughal Empire? Who established the Achaemenid Empire? Who founded the Kushan Empire? Who were the Seljuk turks? Who ruled during the Carolingian Empire?
Who are the descendants of the Hittites? Who were the Hittites descended from? What lands did the Assyrian Empire conquer? Who was Xerxes from the Assyrian Empire? What is the Neo-Assyrian Empire? What is the Ottoman Turkey genocide?
comes from the long-lived family's founder Seljuk (ca. 902–1009). Seljuk and his father Duqaq were military commanders of theKhazar stateand may well have been Jewish—most of the
Out of the ashes of the Ottoman Empire18, Kemal Atatürk19 helped found modern Turkey. Eamon de Valera won Irish independence from Great Britain. Ibn Sa'ūd created a country, Saudi Arabia, that bears his family's name. And, Mao Zedong20 led a 30-year struggle in China, creating a ...
Once the prototype was completed in 1717, Puckle approached the British Navy who, at the time, were having a lot of trouble with Ottoman pirates. You see, the large, broadside cannons their ships were equipped with were a poor weapon of choice to use against tiny, fast moving vessels that...
Those units saw service as a part of the British army in World War I at the battle of the Gallipoli peninsula in Turkey and in the Jordan Valley, fighting the Ottoman Turks. After liberating Jerusalem from the Ottoman Empire in the Battle for Jerusalem, Jewish Legion soldiers stan...
a心终于落下了 The heart finally fell[translate] athe Italians, who regard Libya as their backyard; the British, who want to safeguard their contracts; the Turks, who are keen to revive their influence in the old Ottoman hemisphere; and of course the losing players in the emerging order, th...
beheading, flaying, boiling alive and- of course- impalement were Vlad's favourite techniques to send his victims into their next life. Indeed, one story tells of the aftermath of Vlad's victory against the Ottoman Turks, when he ordered 20,000 men to be impaled on the banks of the ...
Albania was then the buffer zone between Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire. As tensions rose in the run-up to World War I, the Austrian Imperial Council felt that it would be useful to have an accurate geographical and cultural map of the country. Nopcsa’s resulting st...
4. “Built for Europeans who cameon the Orient Express:” Queer Desires of Extravagant Strangersin Sinan Ünel’sPera Palas“a fucking palace:” Grand HotelWhen Agatha Christie visited the Pera Palace Hotel in Istanbul in the mid-1930s and allegedly began to write one of her most famous ...