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- List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
50: *[[Abd-el-Kader]], (circa 1807-1883), Emir of Mascara
68: ...ls Henrik Abel|Abel, Niels Henrik]], (1802-1829), Norwegian mathematician
71: ...en Abell|Abell, George Ogden]], (1927-1983), astronomer
109: *[[Norm Abrams|Abrams, Norm]]
112: *[[Norman Abramson|Abramson, Norman]] - Algeria (16548 bytes)
1: ...n continent. It is bordered by [[Tunisia]] in the northeast, [[Libya]] in the east, [[Niger]] in the s...
21: ...rber language|Berber]], [[French language|French unofficial but commonly used in administration]]
40: | '''[[National Day]]''' || [[1 November]]
60: ... the coast. Berber kingdoms began to emerge, most notably [[Numidia]], and seized the opportunity offe...
64: ...Abdelkader]] made for a slow conquest of Algeria, not technically completed until the early 1900s when... - Qatar (10610 bytes)
1: ...State of Qatar''' (قطر) is an [[emirate]] in the [[Middle East]]. Situated on a small ...
24: | '''[[List of emirs of Qatar|Emir]]'''
57: ...clined to become part of either the [[United Arab Emirates]] or [[Saudi Arabia]].
59: ...quently forming and breaking coalitions with one another in efforts for territorial supremacy.
61: ... newfound sense of political self although it did not gain official standing as a British [[protectora... - Kuwait (15932 bytes)
2: ...[[Saudi Arabia]] in the south and [[Iraq]] in the north. Kuwait is located in the [[Middle East]].
25: | '''[[List of emirs of Kuwait|Emir]]'''
65: ... central [[Arabia]]. They settled in what is now known as Qatar for more than sixty years before migra...
66: ...d taxation/duties. This is unlike most other Arab emirates of the Persian Gulf where the rulers seized a...
68: ...n Peninsula in tumultuous times. The area that is now Kuwait was occupied by tribes and used for spice... - List of painters (54090 bytes)
17: *[[Pierre-Auguste Renoir]], ([[1841]]-[[1919]]), French [[Impressionism|...
47: *[[Cristofano Allori]] ([[1577]]-[[1621]])
93: *[[Vladimir Baranoff-Rossine]] ([[1888]]-[[1944]])
108: *[[Jacopo Bassano]] (ca.[[1510]]-[[1592]])
137: *[[Alexander Benois]] ([[1870]]-[[1960]]) - Crossword (24761 bytes)
1: ...The black squares (commonly called "blanks") have no letters, and are used to separate words (all cont...
8: ...t is, it is part of an answer reading across and another reading down), and usually each answer is req...
10: Another tradition in puzzle design (in North America particularly) is that the grid should ...
12: ...ree form'' crosswords have simple designs and are not symmetric.
14: ... the puzzle authors is to entertain with novelty, not to establish new variations of the crossword gen... - Seljuk Turks (7657 bytes)
1: ...y|14th centuries]]. The Seljuks migrated from the north into [[Persia]], fighting and conquering vario...
5: ...Sanjar]] was captured and held captive by Turkish nomads from [[1153]] to [[1156]] and died the follow...
7: ...ia]] in the [[1260s]] and divided it into small [[emirates]] called the [[Anatolian beyliks]], which in ...
54: '''[[Sultan]]s/[[Emir]]s of [[Damascus]]''': - Bahrain (16123 bytes)
16: ... colspan=2 | <small>''[[National motto]]: [[Bahrainona]] بحرينن...
39: note: includes 235,108 non-nationals (July 2004 est.)
51: | '''[[National anthem]]''' || [[Bahrainona]] (Our Bahrain)
61: ...ame [[Muslim]]. Bahrain was in the ancient times known as [[Dilmun]], [[Tylos]] (its Greek Given name)...
65: ...otamia]] (now [[Iraq]]) and the [[Indus Valley]] (now the region near India). This was the civilizatio... - Persian Empire (26229 bytes)
1: ...s to confuse Iran with Iraq; so in 1959 Pahlavi announced that both Persia and Iran can be used interc...
11: ...tributary peoples to Assyria, [[Babylonia]], and another Aryan tribe, the [[Scythian]]s. The region of...
13: ...e Persians around 700 BC. His son Teispes led the nomadic Persians to settle in southern Iran around 6...
15: ...arter, the king promised not to terrorize Babylon nor destroy its institutions and culture. Cyrus was ...
19: ...the Achaemenids, since the conquered peoples felt no need to revolt. - Jerusalem (61585 bytes)
4: ... a wide range of national, religious, and socioeconomic groups. The section called the "Old City" is s...
6: ...otherwise functions as capital. Many countries do not recognize Israeli sovereignty over some or all o...
18: This city has known many wars and various periods of occupation. A...
20: .... Near the end of the reign of King Solomon, the northern ten tribes split off to form the [[Kingdom ...
24: ...701 BCE]], unlike [[Samaria]], the capital of the northern [[Kingdom of Israel]], which had fallen som... - Monarchy (11801 bytes)
1: ...nlike in a [[republic]], where a [[president]] is normally [[Election|elected]] for a certain amount o...
11: ... the [[Magna Carta]] of [[1215]], although it did not reach democratic proportions until after the [[G...
14: ...] and rapid [[communication]] to flourish. The economic structure of such monarchies is that of concen...
16: ...] was officially a monarchy even though there was no monarch on the throne; upon his death, Franco was...
18: ...thus starting a [[self-proclaimed monarchy]] with no historical ties to a previous dynasty. The most f... - Head of state (33577 bytes)
1: ...te''' or '''chief of state''' is now universally known as the chief public representative of a [[natio...
5: ...ling a monarch head of state is incorrect, it has none-the-less become more and more fashionable to at...
12: ''Note - 'presidential' in this context does not automatically imply a [[president]] but simply a...
14: ...ove proposed cabinet members ''en bloc'' so it is not ''answerability'' in the sense understood in a p...
16: ...e, sometimes even held by some administrative technocrat rather than a politician. A prime minister in...
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