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- Ibn Battuta (16481 bytes)
2: ...s an extensive '''traveller''' or [[exploration|explorer]], whose account documents his travels and si...
6: ...tional in places, the ''Rihla'' still gives as complete an account as exists of some parts of the worl...
8: ... – Ibn Battuta himself (via Ibn Juzayy). In places the things he claims he saw or did are probab...
15: ...bron]], [[Jerusalem]], and [[Bethlehem]], for example – and the Mameluke authorities put special...
17: ... days, he then journeyed on to Mecca. There he completed the usual rituals of a Muslim pilgrim, and ha... - East Timor (13677 bytes)
19: ..., which received some vocal support from the [[People's Republic of China]], was communist. With the [...
21: ...province of Indonesia in July [[1976]] as ''Timor Timur''. However, internationally, its legal status wa...
23: ...e brought in to restore order. These were later replaced by UN forces.
66: ...ps and anti-independence militias, and 260,000 people fled westward. Over the next three years, howeve...
77: ...ed, there are also small numbers of mixed race people, known in Portuguese as ''[[Mesti篝]''. The bes... - Ming Dynasty (65624 bytes)
2: ...and [[army]] was built, with four masted ships displacing 1,500 tons and a standing army of one millio...
10: ...o be subordinated by the scholar bureaucracy. Simply put, maintaining a strong military was essential...
14: ...or nearly a century under the Yuan dynasty were replaced by the Han Chinese. The traditional [[Imperia...
16: ...ve body under past dynasties, after suppressing a plot for which he had blamed his chief minister. Wh...
20: ...ommendations to the throne), imperial edicts in reply, reports of various kinds, and tax records. - Ankara (15129 bytes)
6: ...eep and rocky hill, which rises 500 ft. above the plain on the left bank of the ''Enguri Su'', a tribu...
8: ...]] architecture, the most remarkable being the temple of [[Augustus]], on the walls of which is the fa...
17: ...ven after their capital was moved to [[Constantinople]]. Although Ankara fell into the hands of severa...
21: ...ty in [[1356]]. [[Turkic people|Turkic]] leader [[Timur Lenk]] besieged Ankara as part of his campaign in...
23: ...ng had replaced [[Istanbul]] (formerly Constantinople) as the capital of the new republic on [[October... - History of the Kurds (8244 bytes)
1: Kurds are one of the [[Iranian peoples]] and speak a north-western [[Iranian language]...
3: ...tioned that the Kurds are an [[Indo-European]] people, whereas the above groups are thought to have be...
5: ...ribe of such [[power (sociology)|power]] as to be placed in the early [[Cuneiform (script)|Cuneiform]]...
7: ...n common with all the nations inhabiting the high plateaus of [[Asia Minor]], [[Armenia]] and [[Iran|P...
17: ...an]], which had lain waste since the passage of [[Timur]], with Kurds from the Hakkiari and Bohtan distri... - Persian Empire (26229 bytes)
4: ...y the West to describe the nation of Iran, its people, or its ancient empire. It derives from the anc...
11: ...s''' the Persians and the Medes were tributary peoples to Assyria, [[Babylonia]], and another Aryan tr...
19: ...benefited the Achaemenids, since the conquered peoples felt no need to revolt.
21: ...ame the religion of the rulers and most of the people of Persia. Its founder [[Zoroaster]] had lived a...
23: ...ization of a vast region. For the first time, people from very different cultures were in contact wit... - Cities along the Silk Road (5982 bytes)
4: * [[Constantinople]] (now [[Istanbul]]), [[Turkey]]
70: ...in the town of [[Hazrat-e Turkestan]]. Built by [[Timur]] in the 1390s.]] - Attila the Hun (23655 bytes)
3: ...aded the Balkans twice and encircled [[Constantinople]] in the second invasion. He marched through Fra...
5: ...ies lionise him as a great and noble king, and he plays major roles in three [[Norse saga]]s.
9: ... of them highly cultured and civilized) by their splendid state of readiness for combat, amazing mobil...
15: ...portunity to strengthen the [[walls of Constantinople]], building the city's first [[sea wall]], and t...
21: ...ty during the invasion; the yearly tribute was tripled, rising to 2,100 Roman pounds (c. 687 kg) in go... - Genghis Khan (31537 bytes)
7: ...te28/warstat0.htm#Mongol]. The exact number of people killed during and after his reign is not, and li...
11: ...ded [[Kublai Khan]], [[Babur]], and, allegedly, [[Timur]], although it is unlikely that the Tartar conque...
15: ...Hentiy]], [[Mongolia]]. If this is true, his birthplace is most likely the mountainous area of [[Burha...
25: ...y on the part of Senggum, Wang's former heir, who planned to assassinate Tem?Tem?earnt of Senggum's in...
27: ...that the Mongols would eventually restrict the supply of goods. - Saint Petersburg (36589 bytes)
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40: ...ntre, is impressive even today and to honor it people call it often "the Northern Capital" (с...
60: ...pg|center|thumb|650px|The [[Hermitage Museum]] complex with the [[Winter Palace]] at right]]
62: ... of Russia|Emperor Paul]] in 1797–1801 to replace the earlier Summer Palace. The Tauride palace ...
74: ...[Russian Navy]], the outside being covered with [[plaque]]s to sailors lost at sea. The church of Sts ...
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