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The war also had a significant impact on the construction program of the Spanish Navy. The second and third España-class battleships, built in Spain between 1910 and 1919, were delayed significantly because of material shortages from Britain. [18] Most importantly, the main battery guns for Jaime I did not arrive until 1919, after the war had ...
Initial Muslim victory, conquering the coastal areas of Iberian Peninsula and establishing some colonies on the coast of Spain to help the Muslim conquest of the Maghreb. Areas lost soon after due to the general disorder in the Muslim empire, re-occupied by Visigoths. Byzantine incursion against Visigoth Spain (694/702/703)
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Before World War II, the events of 1914–1918 were generally known as the Great War or simply the World War. [1] In August 1914, the magazine The Independent wrote "This is the Great War. It names itself". [2] In October 1914, the Canadian magazine Maclean's similarly wrote, "Some wars name themselves. This is the Great War."
The Emirate of Bukhara (Persian: امارت بخارا, romanized: Imārat-i Buxārā, [6] Chagatay: بخارا امیرلیگی, romanized: Bukhārā Amirligi) was a Muslim-Uzbek polity in Central Asia [7] that existed from 1785 to 1920 in what is now Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan.
The history of Bukhara goes back thousands of years, beginning with Aryan settlement in the region. [1] The city of Bukhara, now the capital of the Bukhara Region ( viloyat ) of Uzbekistan , is located on the Silk Road and has long been a centre of trade, scholarship, culture, and religion.
The Russian conquest of Bukhara was a series of wars, invasions, and subsequent conquests of the Central Asian Emirate of Bukhara by the Russian Empire. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] War
The Bukhara operation (1920), was a military conflict fought between the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and the Young Bukharans against the Emirate of Bukhara. The war lasted between 28 August and 2 September 1920, ending in the defeat of the Emirate of Bukhara, which was instead replaced by the RSFSR-controlled Bukharan People's ...