In 1901 the Jewish National Fund was established with the purpose of reclaiming the ancestral homeland of the Jews (Israel/Palestine). This was done by PURCHASING LAND from the Turkish rulers ...

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See inside the Oklahoma Capitol. 1453 — The Ottoman Empire conquered Constantinople (modern-day Istanbul), the capital of the Byzantine Empire, also known as the Eastern Roman Empire. 1790 — Rhode ...

Finally, in 1453, the Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II conquered Constantinople ... a magnificent church was the first mark they would erect in every land they ruled. The Aksumite Empire, or Abyssinia, was ...

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“Abuses, repression and the Turkification of the Young Turks” linger on in the memory from the final years of the Ottoman Empire, before its collapse in the wake of the First World War, he says. But ...

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The Trump administration lifted a stop-work order on the Empire offshore wind project off the coast of New Jersey. Opponents of the project cite concerns about environmental impact and harm to ...