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An ancient city in Southeastern Turkey founded by the Umayyads in the 8th century meaning 'castle of Mansur' in Arabic. Name remained as it is until the republican era of Turkey and renamed as ...

Domain: History; Category: World history

Witenagemot(meeting of wise men) was a political institution in Anglo-Saxon England which operated before the 7th century until the 11th century.

Domain: History; Category: World history

In the Middle Ages, the common term among Christians in Europe for a Mohammedan hostile to the crusaders.

Domain: History; Category: World history

The Young Turks were a coalition of various groups favouring reformation of the administration of the Ottoman Empire. The movement was against the monarchy of Ottoman Sultan and favoured a ...

Domain: History; Category: World history

Alparslan Türkeş, who is the founder of the far right Nationalist Movement Party, released a political pamphlet titled The Nine Lights Doctrine in 1965 listing nine basic principles that formed the ...

Domain: History; Category: World history

Also known as Kemalism is the principle that defines the basic characteristics of the Republic of Turkey. These principals are republicanism, populism, secularism, reformism, nationalism and statism. ...

Domain: History; Category: World history

It was a secret circle of liberal-minded students in the imperial military medical school in Istanbul who aspired to overthrow the autocratic regime of Sultan Abdülhamit II.It was transformed into a ...

Domain: History; Category: World history

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