World history
It's been 572 years since the conquest of Istanbul, or who was the conqueror who deserves praise?
Today is the day Constantinople was conquered: starting from the twenty-sixth Rabi' al-Awwal in the year 857 AH, the year 1453 AD, Muhammad the Conqueror besieged the city and finally, on this very day that we are remembering, to be more precise, the twenty-third Jum'ul-Awwal, in the early morning, he succeeded in conquering the city. That is, the siege lasted for about two months. After Muhammad the Conqueror entered the city in triumph, he got down from his falcon, prostrated himself, and thanked God for making this work possible, which is recorded in the annals of history. After that, he went to the Hagia Sophia. The Byzantine people and monks had gathered in the church. Muhammad the Conqueror granted them safety and ordered that the Hagia Sophia be converted into a mosque. The sermon of conquest was delivered during the first Friday prayer.
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After Jesus Christ, Peter continued to preach in Jerusalem, then went to Antioch and Rome. While carrying out missionary work in Rome, he was captured by the authorities and crucified. After this incident, the Christians in Rome accepted him as their spiritual leader. The concept of the papacy was formed on this basis. All subsequent popes were considered Peter's successors.
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Although the Great Seljuk period had a palace for state administration, the sultans often continued to lead a nomadic lifestyle. Therefore, a settlement plan was drawn up based on the season of Ramadan.
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The fall of Bashar al-Assad's regime is reminiscent of the sudden and rapid collapse of the Taliban and the Afghan government of Ashraf Ghani. Just as the Taliban took Kabul within a week, HTS has made rapid territorial gains. These events are reminiscent of the overthrow of Najibullah's regime by mujahideen groups in Afghanistan in the 1990s.
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When it comes to the roots of the Palestinian tragedy, many point to the Nakba ("Catastrophe") of 1948, when hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were forcibly displaced from their homeland. Others point to the famous Balfour Declaration of 1917 as the pivotal point that set the stage for the establishment of a Zionist state in historic Palestine. However, two years after the declaration was signed, a lesser-known but highly significant event occurred: the signing of the Faisal-Weizmann Agreement on January 3, 1919.
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