Gürkan Anar, Damla 2024. Blessing, Patricia. Architecture and Material Politics in the Fifteenth-Century Ottoman Empire. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2022. 284 Pages. Kadim, p. 195. In this ...

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Atatürk rose to power through his military prowess in WW1, where his strategic brilliance earned him widespread recognition. After the war, as the Ottoman Empire collapsed and foreign powers sought to ...

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A day after the fall of the SDF-controlled town of Manbij, Turkish proxies advanced today toward the town of Kobani.

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The Ottoman Empire collapsed in the early 20th century, One of the largest empires in history, the Spanish Empire, also known as the Hispanic Monarchy or the Catholic Monarchy, spanned over 5.3 ...

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