Turks
Seljuk Empire
Seljuks were a Muslim dynasty of Oghuz Turkic roots from the Central Asia that ruled part of the Central Asia and the Middle East between the 11th and 13th centuries. The empire they built, The Great Seljuk Empire, stretched from Anatolia to Pakistan…Turkish Republic
After World War 1, the situation looked very bleak for the Turks as their armies were being disbanded and their country taken under the control of the Allied Forces. But a catastrophe turned things around. Ever since independence in 1831, the Greeks …Ottoman Empire
Byzantine weakness left a power vacuum which was filled by bands of Turks fleeing from the Mongols. Guerilla units, each led by a warlord, took over parts of the Aegean and Marmara coasts. The Turks who moved into Bithynia, around Bursa, were followe…Birth of Islam
The people of Mecca didn’t take to Muhammed’s preaching at once; in fact, they forced him to leave Mecca, says tradition, in 622. This ‘flight’ (‘hegira’) is the starting-point for the Muslim lunar calendar.
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