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This essay proposes three models of Mediterranean space and action that emerge out of early modern narratives and visuals (particularly maps). These overlapping models, for the long sixteenth century, are: 1) itinerary; 2) empire; and 3) predator, all of which appear under the broader frame of geog...

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The Alevi are a religious minority in Turkey. It is a heterogeneous group including millions of Muslims who do not profess the major Sunni movement. During the time of the Ottoman Empire they were often persecuted as heretics. The Alevi and the Bektashi rise from the same origins which stretch back...

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After the outbreak of the uprising in Herzegovina (1875), the idea of a final solution to the Eastern Question seemed feasible. Volunteers, mainly from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, but also from other European countries, began to arrive in Herzegovina. The young German Albin Hugo Kutschbach arrived...

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;text-indent:1.0cm"><span style="font-family:&quot;Book Antiqua&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;mso-bidi-font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;;&#10;mso-bidi-theme-font:major-bidi">The travel...

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In this article, Salma Hargal analyzes the journey of impoverished Algerians who became settlers on state-granted lands within the framework of Ottoman immigration policies and who acquired Ottoman citizenship under the 1869 Nationality Law. Drawing on a diverse range of sources—including confiscat...

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Introduction. The article examines the role of Shagin Giray’s personality in the social and political situation of the Crimean Khanate, which tried to preserve its independence in the struggle between the Russian and Ottoman states in the last quarter of the XVIII century. The goal of the research i...

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In February 1903, with the introduction of Austro-Russian “The Vienna Scheme”, the Macedonian issue became a European-wide problem. The diplomatic games of the Great Powers over the Macedonian reforms became one of the key factors affecting the adjustment of relations among the Great Powers. In ord...

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The present article offers an analysis of the information presented in travel literature from the period between the 16th and 19th c., with a particular focus on the ruins located around Trajan’s Gate Pass. The descriptions of foreign travellers and the sketches, engravings and plans they left behi...

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Maulana Zafar Ali Khan( 1873---1956) was an epoch-making personality who rendered his services in the fields of journalism, poetry and translations. Besides his literary endeavours, he played a pivotal role in the Khilafat Movement. He contributed in this historical movement as a mainstream leader a...

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In February 1903, with the introduction of Austro-Russian “The Vienna Scheme”, the Macedonian issue became a European-wide problem. The diplomatic games of the Great Powers over the Macedonian reforms became one of the key factors affecting the adjustment of relations among the Great Powers. In ord...

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In February 1903, with the introduction of Austro-Russian “The Vienna Scheme”, the Macedonian issue became a European-wide problem. The diplomatic games of the Great Powers over the Macedonian reforms became one of the key factors affecting the adjustment of relations among the Great Powers. In ord...

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The last stop on the Muslim pilgrimage is the Kaʻba. Like all other holy and religious places, the Kaʻba has survived due to the repairs it has undergone since its construction. However, the Kaʻba has been rebuilt at times when it was destroyed for various reasons. Since the interruption of the pilg...

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Nükhet Varlık, who completed her undergraduate and graduate studies at Boğaziçi University, received her Ph.D. at the University of Chicago in 2008. She currently works as Associate Professor in the History Department at Rutgers University and continues her research on subjects such as medicine, ep...

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During the period when shipbuilding technology was based on wood, charcoal was used extensively as a heat source in the production of the iron parts of the ships. Thanks to its rich forest resources, the Ottoman Empire, which had a great advantage over its contemporary states in the supply of charco...

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У сучасній історіографії усталеною є думка про те, що в Османській імперії не існувало ринку землі в сучасному економічному тлумаченні. Базуючись на створеній у XVIII столітті концепції феодалізму й розвиненої в працях марксистсько-радянського штибу, було створено образ суспільства, що не знало прив...

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This article introduces the concept of a “mobile boundary” in the context of North Africa from 1881 to 1893, when various non-state actors resisted French and Ottoman attempts to delineate an official border between Tripolitania and Tunisia. By focusing on the activities of nomadic, tribal, and ref...

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At present investigation of the regional history, which is an element of all-Russian and world processes, has acquired particular relevance, as it makes it possible to soak up the national culture, form national identity, and preserve socio-cultural values and traditions of the people. Relations bet...

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INTRODUCTION. Israel is a diverse and controversial state. Its laws, especially those of the area of family and marital law, are distinctly unique. The reason being that throughout its centuries-long history Eretz Israel (the Land of Israel) – the historical name of the country, the structure of nor...

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Osmanlı toplumunda saraydan, dini mekânlara, sosyal müesseselerden harp aletlerine kadar toplumun her tabakasında bakır madenleri revaçtadır. Osmanlı ordusunda kullanılan topların hammaddesi olarak stratejik bir öneme haiz olan bakır madenleri, devletin iç ve dış siyasetine dahi nüfuz etmiştir. Bund...

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