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The dirham was a unit of mass used across North Africa, the Middle East, Persia and Ifat; later known as Adal, with varying values. The value of Islamic dirham was 14 qirat. 10 dirham equals 7 mithqal (2.975 gm of silver). In the late Ottoman Empire (Ottoman Turkish: درهم), the standard dirham was 3.207 g; [1] 400 dirhem equal one oka.
The same unit, pronounced okka (uqqa) in Turkish, was used in the Ottoman Empire until the early 20th century. The standard Istanbul okka equaled 128.3 g. The standard Istanbul okka equaled 128.3 g. The ouguiya , the currency of Mauritania , takes its name from the Hassaniya Arabic pronunciation of uqiyyah .
Silver dinar from the reign of Serbian king Stefan Uroš I (1243–1255).. The modern dinar's historical antecedents are the gold dinar and the silver dirham, the main coin of the medieval Islamic empires, first issued in AH 77 (696–697 AD) (Late Antiquity) by Caliph Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan.
The Islamic State of Iraq (ISI) establishing itself in 2013 as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (or the Levant), and then simply as the Islamic State in June 2014. [5] By 2015, it controlled a large amount of territory in both countries, declaring itself as a caliphate and planning to absorb other territories of the Muslim world.
Umayyad gold dinar minted at Damascus, Syria in AH 77 (697 CE) having a weight of 4.24 grams Gold Dinar of the 20th Abbasid Caliph Ar-Radi bi'llah (934–940 CE) Fatimid dinar issued during the reign of al-Mu'izz li-Din Allah in Mansuriya in 344 AH (955 CE) Dinar Mamluq sultan Baybars (658–676 AH (1260–1277 CE)
The para (Ottoman Turkish: پاره, romanized: pare, para, from Persian پاره, Sorani Kurdish: پارە pâre, 'piece'; [1] [2] Cyrillic: пара) was a former currency of the Ottoman Empire, Turkey, Egypt, Montenegro, Albania and Yugoslavia and is the current subunit, although rarely used, of the Serbian dinar.
This action provoked the Ottoman Empire into the Russo-Turkish War (1768–1774), during which, in January 1769, a 70-thousand Turkish-Tatar army led by the Crimean Khan Qırım Giray made one of the largest slave raids in the history, which was repulsed by the 6-thousand garrison of the Fortress of St. Elizabeth, which prevented Ottoman Empire ...
During Ottoman times people from Luzon, Philippines were employed by the Turkish. [1] The nephew of the Ottoman Viceroy to Egypt, admiral Heredim Mafamede employed Lucoes in the war against the Portuguese in the Indian Ocean since they appointed one Lucoes named Sapetu Diraja as commander of the Muslim forces over in Aceh, Sumatra , [ 1 ] their ...