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Anglo-Spanish War 1588-1604 (Spanish Armada)
The Destruction of the Invincible Armada (1892) by Spanish artist Jose Gartner Background to the Spanish-English War Before Britain and...


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Battle of Varna
The battle is so named because it took place near the city of Varna. This battle is also very important in terms of strengthening the...


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Palace of Versailles
The earliest document in which Versailles is mentioned is the Charter of the Abbey of Saint-Pere de Chartes, written before 1038. One of...


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Hacı Ilbeg
Although his real name is unknown, it is thought that the name Hacı Ilbeg was a title. The information we have about him dates back to...


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Battle of Ankara
As a brief explanation, the inclusion of Anatolia in Timur's sphere of dominance, which extended from Anatolia to India, drove a wedge...


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Ulugh Beg Mirza
Ulugh Beg was born on March 22, 1394 in Sultâniye, Azerbaijan. His father was Shâhruh, the younger son of Timur, and his mother was...

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Samarkand
It is mentioned as "Maracanda" in Greek sources and as "K'Sang" and "Hsi-wan-chin" in Chinese sources. The name of Samarkand is a...


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Battle of Nicopolis
The Battle of Nicopolis is the battle that took place on September 25, 1396 in front of NiÄŸbolu Castle and resulted in the defeat of the...


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Helmuth von Moltke
Moltke was born in Parchim on October 26, 1800, the son of Friedrich Philipp Victor Von Moltke, a German general whose father served...


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Treaty of Paris 1856
The Treaty of Paris is a treaty of great importance not only for the Ottoman Empire but also for world history in general. This treaty,...


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Skanderbeg
Skanderbeg was born in 1405 in the village of 'Sine', one of the villages ruled by his family. His father was Gjon Kastrioti, the...


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Turkish Bath Movement
In the 19th century Victorian era, there were two men who introduced Turkish baths to Britain and Scotland. They were David Urquhat, a...


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Battle of Navarino
In 1827, according to the Treaty of London signed between the United Kingdom, Russia and France, the emergence of Greece as an...


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Giambattista Della Porta / Giovanni Battista Della Porta (1535-1614)
Porta, also known as Giovanni Battista Della Porta, was a scientist, polymath and playwright who lived in Naples, Italy during the...


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Marco Polo
Although the information about his life and travels is not certain, it is stated that he was born in Venice in 1254 in a merchant family....


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Briefly the Process of Colonization of the African Continent and Its Consequences
There have been many troubling events in world history. One of the most important of these is the so-called colonization of Africa, or as...


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David Urquhart
David Urquhart was born in Cromraty, England in 1805. After the death of his father, he went to Switzerland with his mother. After his...


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Book Writing in the Middle Ages
AN OVERVIEW OF THE HISTORY OF PARCHMENT When we take a look at the general history of writing, in ancient times, writers used to write on...


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Women in the Crusades
Introduction The Crusades were the gathering and mobilization of the armed forces of Western Europe under the Pope between 1096-1293. The...


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Peace of Augsburg
In the 16th century, the only unifying force in Europe was Christianity. Except for the Ottoman lands, all European lands were Christian....
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