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1 First war (1861–1862) 2 Second war (1865) 3 Third war (1871–1872) 4 Fourth war and the Pangkor Treaty (1873–1874) 5 Aftermath. 6 See also. 7 References. 8 ...
The Báb was born on 20 October 1819 (1 Muharram 1235 AH/27 Mehr 1198 SH), in Shiraz to a middle-class merchant of the city and given the name ʿAlí Muḥammad. [24] He was a Sayyid , descendant of Muhammad , with both parents tracing their lineage through Husayn ibn Ali . [ 28 ]
The Crusades were a series of religious wars initiated, supported, and sometimes directed by the Christian Latin Church in the medieval period.The best known of these military expeditions are those to the Holy Land between 1095 and 1291 that had the objective of reconquering Jerusalem and its surrounding area from Muslim rule after the region had been conquered by the Rashidun Caliphate ...
1. Avoid the craziness. What you don’t own can be just as important as what you do. A good first step to avoid getting hurt in an overheated market is to make sure you steer clear of the hottest ...
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Traditional Arabic houses sometimes have a "Bab AL-Sirr": a secret door used as an emergency exit built into the walls and hidden with a window sill or a bookcase. The name comes from one of the six gates cut through an ancient wall in Aden (in modern-day Yemen ), which was opened only in the event of a state security emergency.
Bab al-Azizia (Arabic: باب العزيزية, romanized: Bāb al ‘Azīzīyah, [1] Libyan pronunciation: [bæːb əl ʕæziːˈzijjæ], lit. ' The Splendid Gate ' ) was a military barracks and compound situated in the southern suburbs of Tripoli , the capital of Libya .
Henry Wirz (born Hartmann Heinrich Wirz; November 25, 1823 – November 10, 1865) was a Swiss-American convicted war criminal who served as a Confederate Army officer during the American Civil War. [1]