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2. Gaza checkpoint to be staffed by scores of armed American ...

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   WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A small U.S. security firm is hiring nearly 100 U.S. special forces veterans to help run a checkpoint in Gaza during the Israel-Hamas truce, according to a company ...

3. Corps of Forty - Wikipedia

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   The Corps of Forty (Persian: گروه چهارده, Urdu: گروہِ چالیس), also known as the Dal Chalisa or the Turkan-e-Chahalgani, was a council of 40 mostly Turkic slave emirs, called the Shamsi, who administered the Delhi Sultanate as per the wishes of the sultan.

4. Mamluk - Wikipedia

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   Mamluk or Mamaluk (/ ˈ m æ m l uː k /; Arabic: مملوك, romanized: mamlūk (singular), مماليك, mamālīk (plural); [2] translated as "one who is owned", [5] meaning "slave") [7] were non-Arab, ethnically diverse (mostly Turkic, Caucasian, Eastern and Southeastern European) enslaved mercenaries, slave-soldiers, and freed slaves who were assigned high-ranking military and ...

5. Turkic peoples - Wikipedia

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   The Turkic peoples are a collection of diverse ethnic groups of West, Central, East, and North Asia as well as parts of Europe, who speak Turkic languages. [37] [38]According to historians and linguists, the Proto-Turkic language originated in Central-East Asia, [39] potentially in the Altai-Sayan region, Mongolia or Tuva.

6. Turkish slaves in the Delhi Sultanate - Wikipedia

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   The Delhi Sultanate was shaped in many ways by the Turkic soldiers. To a significant extent the early Delhi Sultans, themselves of Turkic origin, deliberately sought to import exclusive signs of "Turkicness". [4] The Persian Chroniclers had to learn the Turkic language, and the Turkic language spread throughout the Sultanate.

7. Bukhara slave trade - Wikipedia

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   Turkic girls continued to be a popular target for sexual slavery as concubines; Shajar al-Durr was likely originally a Turkic slave concubine. [24] Turkic male slaves kept being viewed as ideal for military slavery. Turkic men were popular as slave soldiers in the slave market of the Delhi Sultanate (1206–1526) and the Rasulid dynasty of ...

8. Ghazi (warrior) - Wikipedia

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   Ottoman historian Ahmedi in his work explain the meaning of Ghazi: [13] A Ghazi is the instrument of the religion of Allah, a servant of God who purifies the earth from the filth of polytheism. The Ghazi is the sword of God, he is the protector and the refuge of the believers.

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