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  • Thumbnail for Kucheh
    In traditional Persian architecture, a kucheh or koocheh (Persian: کوچه), is a narrow especially designed alley. Remnants of it are still seen in modern...
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  • Anah (Arabic: قضاء عانة) is a district in Al Anbar Governorate, Iraq. It is centred on the town of Anah. As of 2018, it has an estimated population of...
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  • Sandıklı is a town of Afyonkarahisar Province in the Aegean region of Turkey. It is the seat of Sandıklı District. Its population is 33,836 (2021). The...
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    Al-Muʿizz ibn Bādīs (Arabic: المعز بن باديس; 1008–1062) was the fourth ruler of the Zirids in Ifriqiya, reigning from 1016 to 1062. Ibn Khallikan wrote...
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  • Hamala (Arabic: الهملة) is a village located in the Kingdom of Bahrain, an island country in the Persian Gulf. Batelco, Bahrain's largest telecommunications...
    3 KB (35 words) - 04:28, 16 March 2023
  • Risalah (Arabic: رسالـة) is the Arabic word for treatise, but among the Shia, the term is used as shorthand for a risalah-yi'amaliyyah (Arabic: رسالهی...
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  • Oğuzlar is a town in Çorum Province in the Black Sea region of Turkey. It is located at 68 km from the city of Çorum. It is the seat of Dodurga District...
    3 KB (186 words) - 09:51, 22 May 2023
  • Thumbnail for Sweden at the 2006 European Athletics Championships
    Sweden, as the hosting nation, sent as many as 74 athletes to the 2006 European Athletics Championships. The squad included three Olympic champions from...
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  • The Reconciliation and Liberation Bloc or Kutla al-Musalaha wa't-Tahrir was an Iraqi political party. The Sunni, liberal, and secularist party was founded...
    2 KB (180 words) - 12:02, 12 December 2021
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    Constantine Demetrius Mourouzis (Greek: Κωνσταντίνος Δημήτριος Μουρούζης, romanized: Konstantinos Demetrios Mourouzis, Romanian: Constantin Dimitrie Moruzi)...
    3 KB (199 words) - 11:42, 6 July 2023
  • Afif Abdul Wahab (1915–2003) was a Lebanese medical doctor, general surgeon and urologist, businessman and philanthropist, born and raised in El Mina....
    2 KB (191 words) - 15:29, 21 December 2021
  • The Siddur (prayerbook) of Saadia Gaon is the earliest surviving attempt to transcribe the weekly ritual of Jewish prayers for weekdays, Sabbaths, and...
    2 KB (220 words) - 15:20, 19 February 2023
  • Bursa Anatolian High School (Turkish: Bursa Anadolu Lisesi; BAL), is a public boarding secondary school in Bursa, Turkey. BAL is one of the most prominent...
    3 KB (303 words) - 17:02, 29 May 2023
  • The Hawkinsville and Florida Southern Railway (H&FS) was founded in 1896 and by 1901 was operating 43 miles (69 km) of track from Hawkinsville to Worth...
    3 KB (156 words) - 23:02, 17 May 2022
  • Beirut Blues (Arabic: بريد بيروت) is Hanan al-Shaykh's third novel. It is an intimate and engaging portrait of a young woman struggling to make sense of...
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  • The Astarpa River (possibly the modern Meander River, Turkey) is a river in western Anatolia mentioned in Hittites records of the 14th century BC. The...
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  • Diogenes was a soldier in the service of the Hasmonean king Alexander Jannaeus (103-76 BCE). He appears in Josephus's work Antiquities of the Jews. In...
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