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  2. Suleiman the Magnificent - Wikipedia

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    Suleiman I (Ottoman Turkish: سليمان اول Süleyman-ı Evvel; Modern Turkish: I. Süleyman, IPA:; 6 November 1494 – 6 September 1566), commonly known as Suleiman the Magnificent in the Western world and as Suleiman the Lawgiver (قانونى سلطان سليمان Ḳānūnī Sulṭān Süleymān) in his own realm, was the Ottoman sultan between 1520 and his death in 1566.

  3. Mimar Sinan - Wikipedia

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    Mimar Sinan (Ottoman Turkish: معمار سينان, romanized: Mi'mâr Sinân; Turkish: Mimar Sinan, pronounced [miːˈmaːɾ siˈnan]; c. 1488/1490 – 17 July 1588) also known as Koca Mi'mâr Sinân Âğâ, ("Sinan Agha the Grand Architect" or "Grand Sinan") was the chief Ottoman architect, engineer and mathematician for sultans Suleiman the Magnificent, Selim II and Murad III.

  4. Süleymanname - Wikipedia

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    Suleiman marching with his army in Nakhichevan, summer 1554, during the Ottoman-Safavid War of 1532-1555. One of the scenes of the Süleymannâme. The Süleymannâme (or Sulaiman-nama; [1] lit. "Book of Suleiman") is an illustration of Suleiman the Magnificent's life and achievements. In 65 scenes the miniature paintings are decorated with gold ...

  5. Law of South Africa - Wikipedia

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    Countries (in pink) which share the mixed South African legal system. South Africa has a 'hybrid' or 'mixed' legal system, [1] formed by the interweaving of a number of distinct legal traditions: a civil law system inherited from the Dutch, a common law system inherited from the British, and a customary law system inherited from indigenous Africans (often termed African Customary Law, of which ...

  6. Law in Africa - Wikipedia

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    Comparatively, the primary sources of South Africa law were Roman-Dutch and English Common law, imports of Dutch settlements and British colonialism, which is sometimes termed Anglo-Dutch law. Hence, pluralistic systems were devised by nations that combined the customary law, inherited penal codes and religious laws depending on the ancestral ...

  7. South African jurisprudence - Wikipedia

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    South Africa's legal system is founded on constitutional supremacy, which means that all laws and actions by the state must comply with the Constitution. The Constitution is the highest law and includes a comprehensive Bill of Rights that protects the civil, political, and socio-economic rights of all individuals.

  8. Portuguese expedition to Sofala (1505) - Wikipedia

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    Queirós killed in South Africa, passed to João Vaz de Almada, ship passed at Sofala to Pêro Teixeira , and then lost near Mozambique. [Because the name of Anaia's flagship is conspicuously missing, some writers sometimes mistakenly call it the Espirito Santo (confusing it with Magalhães's). [ 3 ]

  9. Sources of law - Wikipedia

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    Scotland, for instance, has a hybrid form of law, as does South Africa, whose law in an amalgam of common law, civil law and tribal law. A state may comply with international law, it may have a written or federal constitution, or it may have regional legislature, but normally it is the central national legislature that is the ultimate source of ...