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Hammad 🇵🇰
HammadHusain1
Ref debate whether #Ertugrul was a Muslim or a pagan, here are some historical facts: 1. Ertugrul's Kayi Tribe was one of the many #Turkish tribes that settled in Anatolia
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Tamara 🇬🇪🇹🇷🇦🇿
chvnburi
A thread about the Turks did not take the lands of armenians by force:The territory in which the armenians lived together for a time never was ruled by them as
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vlachofagos
vlachofagos
Thread:What we mean when we say that the Armenian genocide never happend is not that the sufferings of both the Armenians and Turks never took place, it simply means there
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Nicholas Danforth
NicholasDanfort
Italy has played an unexpected and oddly crucial role at key moments in Turkish diplomatic history... In 1919, Italy's push to expand its territorial claims in Anatolia led Britain to
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History Under Your Feet
HistorifyToday
#TodayInHistory The Arabs under Amr ibn al-As of the Rashidun Caliphate, win a decisive battle at Heliopolis( now Ayn Shams near Cairo) in 640 CE, against the Byzantines, that launched
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Jacfar Muxumud
jaydmoos
Top ten Roman generals of all time[A THREAD] 10) Nero Claudius Drusus GermanicusConquered Germania as well as avenging the loss at Teutoburg forest by smiting Arminius's confederation and snatching his
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Rick Petree
RickPetree
Long thread, about the Kurds, and ethnicity in the Turkish Republic. Relevant to current events in Syria, but focused on background of Turkey’s “Kurdish problem.” With apologies to scholars, this
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Tugba Tanyeri-Erdemir
TurkishFacade
With the recent discussions on changing #HagiaSophia's status from a museum to a mosque, I wanted to share with you a few articles I wrote over the years based on
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Anshuman Pandey
anshumanpandey_
‘Old Uyghur’ script from Anatolia, folio from “Atabatu-l Haqayiq”, 14th c (courtesy @KontovasNiko). Shows the geographic & temporal extent of #Uyghur script and its stylistic diversity. This and all styles
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Pierre A. Colombier
PAColombier
The current state of greco-roman-byzantine vestiges in inland Anatolia.Everything is abandonned by Turkey (to be fair, even the cities are).@byzantinepower 1. Theatre of Nicaea/Nikaia (modern Iznik). 2. Walls of Nicaea/Nikaia
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Natalie 🌿🏕️🍄🛐
Kiautschii
i had always heard that civilisation began in mesopotamia around 5000BCbut this is basically false or at least misleading - it started in anatolia up to 3000 years earlier with
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Tweeting Historians
Tweetistorian
The Byzantines often tried to assimilate barbarians by resettling groups of them in other parts of the empire. But this worked at cross-purposes to another desire: to use the barbarians’
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Diego Castillo🇲🇽🇬🇧🇺🇲🇦🇲🇮🇱🇭🇲🇬🇷🇨🇾
DiegoMexican28
Los justos de 1915:Entre fines del siglo XIX y principios del siglo XX, el gobierno turco perpetró un genocidio contra las minorías no musulmanas, principalmente armenios, griegos y asirios. No
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Danny Bate
DannyBate4
An Introduction to the Celtic Language Family: some more info, for the perplexed:Celtic is a family of languages that were once spoken from Ireland to Anatolia (see: Galatians, St Paul's
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M. Efe Caman
MehmetEfe_Caman
My FamilyTree genealogy-DNA results: 54% Asia Minor & Caucasia (Anatolia-Armenia)16% Southeast Europe (Greece-Italy-Balkan+)16% West & Central Europe (Italy, France+)6% West Middle East (Israel, Lebanon) 3% East Europe3% North Asia2
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Portharcourt 2nd Son
Polymat43955419
Theodore Roosevelt referred to the genocide as “the greatest crime of the war.”British Liberal Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone (1809–1898), stated in a speech in 1895, during the Hamidian massacres,
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