REVOLUTIONARY NATIONALISM AND THE MIDDLE EAST One of the effects of World War I in the Middle East‚ was a variety of nationalist movements began and spread due to the division of the Ottoman Empire. There are five essential assumptions of nationalism: all nationalists believe that humanity is naturally divided into smaller nations‚ nations can be identified by certain characteristics that all its citizens hold in common‚ including; ethnic‚ religious‚ or historical traditions‚ times might change
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1502 Leonardo da Vinci did a simple drawing of a graceful bridge with a single span of 720-foot span (approximately 240-meters.) Da Vinci designed the bridge as part of a civil engineering project for Sultan Bajazet II of Constantinople (Istanbul.) The bridge was to span the Golden Horn‚ an inlet at the mouth of the Bosphorus River in what is now Turkey. The Bridge was never built. Leonardo’s "Golden Horn" Bridge is a perfect "pressed-bow." Leonardo surmised correctly that the
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Television is a powerful medium. However‚ Turkish viewers ignore Dutch television and point their dishes to receive TV-stations from their home country. The commercial Turkish stations are more popular than the state broadcast TRT INT‚ receivable through cable. Do these stations actually interfere with integration or are the Dutch stations not making enough efforts to attract Turkish viewer ship? TRT INT is the international TV-station of the Turkish state-owned broadcasting system TRT. It broadcasts
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and Bulgaria to the west‚ Russia‚ Ukraine‚ and Romania to the north and northwest‚ Georgia‚ Armenia‚ Azerbaijan‚ and Iran to the east‚ and Syria and Iraq to the south” (“Turkey”). Turkey has a population of 81‚619‚392 with its largest city being Istanbul with eleven million people. Their government is Republican Parliamentary Democracy and have a president and prime
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It was an eye opening experience for me to participate in study tour with new friends from USA cohort as we spent four days explored Turkey together. Through this study tour‚ we were able to meet with and pick the minds of great individuals in Turkey. I am especially grateful for having the opportunity to experience Turkish hospitality‚ culture‚ government‚ education‚ business‚ arts‚ media‚ history‚ religion and their people first hand. This is something that I cannot find in “Lonely Planet” travel
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regional importance. Among the many earliest inhabitants of this land were: the Hittites‚ the Greeks‚ the Persians‚ the Romans‚ as well as many others. The Roman Emperor Constantine the Great changed the name of the city of Byzantium (modern day Istanbul) to Constantinople and made it his new Eastern Roman capital. This movement caused a massive social and economic schism‚ and the great Roman Empire became two separate halves. Constantinople‚ shortly thereafter‚ became the center of Eastern Orthodox
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Suleiman the First‚ was the 10th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire‚ who first came to a leadership position as a prince at the age of 17 as a governor. Suleiman was well known throughout Europe and the Ottoman empire as “Suleiman the Magnificent” as well as “Suleiman the Lawgiver” for all the accomplishments he achieved as sultan. In Ottoman Empire‚ all people are considered slaves beneath the sultan‚ not in a derogative way as one nowadays would think but in a cultural and religious aspect. Lybyer (1913)
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Jonathan Z. Mougharbel Professor Maddock History 312 – TuTh 10:30-11:50 19 March 2013 The East to West Revolution – Settlement of the Colonies People often say things about how the United States‚ with its revolutionary political and economic system‚ must have been around for a long time in order to achieve the world standing it holds today. This isn’t the case though. In fact‚ when compared to great civilizations like the Roman Empire which lasted almost 12 centuries‚ many would say that the
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slowdown has indeed been impressive‚ with a growth rate comparable to China ’s in 20I0-II‚ at close to 9% per annum. The recovery was facilitated by macroeconomic policy stimulus but its pace largely reflects private sector dynamism‚ both in the Istanbul
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Two Different Cultures and One Common Problem. (General Psychosocial Review of Turkish Migrants in Germany) Mehmet Yilmaz Warsaw School of Social Sciences and Humanities Warsaw 2011 Physical movement of people in a particular time and geographic space expresses the phenomena of migration which emerged in human societies since ancient times is very characteristic and typical of a social concept. Phenomena of migration hardly influences the social structure‚ public
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