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PhDniX
So let's talk some more Classical Arabic orthography! Vocalisation. People who learn to read Arabic today generally learn there are three vowel signs: fatḥah, ḍammah, kasra. Write them twice for
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Sebastian Huluban
HulubanS
Great, but it was Joseph II that transformed ‘militar grenze’ into a sophisticated intelligence rampart : “The sanitary cordon that Emperor Joseph I built along the Habsburg-Ottoman frontier was one
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Dr. Nyri A. Bakkalian
riversidewings
So the story goes like this.My great-grandmom Prapion, whose husband was clerk and interpreter to US consul Leslie Davis, took the family to the Black Sea coast, where they could
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Egemen Sert
egemensert
Below is a thread on the coin flip politics related to the final years of the Ottoman Empire. Thread is on Armenian, Kurdish, Turkish disputes.Many atrocities occured between 1912 to
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xenogothic
Can’t stop thinking about the history of the ownership of Courbet’s The Origin of the World. (A thread.) Commissioned by Ottoman diplomat Halil Şerif Pasha, most of the paintings owners
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Mithra
Mithraxss
[THREAD ABOUT THE ZAND DYNASTY LAKI(BRUNCH OF LUR) KURDS WHO RULED IRAN 1750-1794] As per previously i will layout the historical facts and events before covering my own take. The
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Lică Vlahul
Iulian68
the Serbian-Wallachian connection of late 15 -early 16th century deepens!@hogtownserb @Purpura57912934 @vonkronstadt @ArcGreek Mara Brankovic, daughter of George Brancovic & Eirene Kantakousenos who was married with sultan Murad II became
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Thomas de Waal
Tom_deWaal
1 Pres. Biden may recognize the destruction of the Ottoman Armenians in 1915 as the Armenian Genocide @john_Hudson, @JakesNYT report. It’s the right thing to do. It will start to
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Brian Flynn
ApparentlyBrian
Today I learned about my great-grandfather, Edward Boutros, born in Romieh, a suburb of Beirut when Lebanon was still called Syria, a province of the Ottoman Empire. Around 1900 he
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Kienand Lauw
KeeNand__
Aku akan bahas berdirinya negara Israel dari sudut perspektif Israel sebagai sebuah negara, selama ini kan kalo mendengar dr perspektif Palestina kita udah sering, lalu kemudian penilaian jatuh pd membela
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Lică Vlahul
Iulian68
The feud between John Hunyadi & Vlad II Dracul (superimposed on between Draculesti & Danesti) would be an unfortunate power struggle in the midst of anti-Ottoman war & lead to
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Samantha Power
SamanthaJPower
With long-overdue #ArmenianGenocide recognition seemingly near, it's worth recalling the courage of US diplomats who in 1915 exposed the massacres in real-time, trying in vain to get Washington to help
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VictoryOfTheLight
KibBitzLaw
South America and it’s connection to UFOs/UAPs has always fascinated me for a few reasons. 1.) Inca, Maya, Aztec culture and empires all spoke of the “sky gods” in their
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Tweeting Historians
Tweetistorian
MAHJARI PRINT CULTURE: Now, let's talk about Syrian serials in this diaspora.Yesterday I described the problems in locating migration history in state records when states are invested in migration control.Thankfully,
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Sajjad Rizvi
mullasadra
#IbnArabi (d. 1240) is famed for his monistic doctrine of #wahdatalwujud although #WilliamChittick http://www.ibnarabisociety.org/articles/qunawi-on-the-one-wujud.html has pointed out he never used the term preferring al-wujud al-Haqq or similar #Suf
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Omer Sayadi
MENAsymbolism
I can't go too long without you guys, so I'm back with a new symbol. Let's take some time to talk in this new THREAD about the #scimitar as an
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