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Multiethnic empire with the monarchs from the Ottoman dynasty (1299–1922)
The name “Palestine” has ancient literary roots — Herodotus used Palaistine in the 5th century BCE to describe a district of Syria (earliest incontrovertible attestation) . The term functioned for mil...
La afirmación de que "los judíos fueron expulsados de 109 países" circula en Internet pero no aparece verificada por fuentes académicas sólidas entre los documentos aportados; la historiografía confir...
The territory commonly called Palestine has been governed at different times by local kingdoms and a long succession of empires: ancient Israelite and Philistine polities, Assyrian and Babylonian conq...
Henry Ford’s factories began attracting Arab immigrants in the early 20th century, with scholars and local reporting tying a major surge to Ford’s $5 workday announced on Jan. 5, 1914; by the 1910s an...
The historical origins of Ashkenazi, Sephardi, and Mizrahi Jewish communities reflect distinct but overlapping trajectories shaped by ancient Near Eastern roots, medieval migrations, and later diaspor...
The early Arab immigrants who made Dearborn the anchor of America’s Arab‑American population were predominantly , drawn by industrial jobs in Detroit’s auto industry; a notable group of Muslims from s...
The i–Palestinian conflict traces back to competing national movements — Zionism and Arab nationalism — that collided in late 19th and early 20th century as Jewish immigration increased under and then...
The question misunderstands a complex, multi-stage conflict: violence in Palestine did not begin only after the United Nations partition plan or only after the declaration of Israel; a civil war betwe...
Ashkenazi and Sephardic Jews display : Ashkenazi communities expanded mainly across Central and Eastern Europe from medieval Rhineland origins before large modern emigrations to the Americas in the 19...
Scholarship assembled in the provided reporting shows little evidence of sustained, large-scale in before the late 19th century; instead the record presented emphasizes long periods of coexistence und...
Modern ethnic Turks trace their deep linguistic and cultural roots to Turkic-speaking peoples of Central and East Asia who expanded westward across the Eurasian steppe, while the core genetic and demo...
Scholars outside overwhelmingly characterize the mass killings and deportations of s in the as genocide, a conclusion grounded in extensive archival evidence and eyewitness testimony . involvement dur...
The mass killings and deportations of in 1915–1918 were organized and executed by the and its agents and are widely described by scholars as a ; the and state-directed policies played central roles . ...
in the 19th and 20th centuries each mined selective strands of history—religious memory, archaeological claims, imperial promises and demographic narratives—to legitimate competing territorial claims ...
origins function as core narrative weapons in both and Palestinian political discourse: each side invokes history, ancestry and myth to legitimate territorial claims, mobilize supporters and delegitim...
World War I erupted after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914 but was the product of decades of militarism, imperial rivalry, entangled alliances and rising nationalism that transfor...
Palestinian genetic diversity today reflects long-standing local continuity in the Southern Levant combined with layered inputs from migrations, conquests, and episodic gene flow rather than wholesale...
Israeli genealogical records and projects increasingly include Ottoman- and Turkey-era materials that link many Israeli families to ancestors in the Ottoman Empire and modern Turkey; the Israel Geneal...
Before Israel’s 1948 independence, Jewish migration to Palestine was driven by a combination of that promoted return to an ancestral homeland; British policy under the Mandate both constrained and fac...
Romania is not a colony today; it is a sovereign, independent state that secured formal independence from Ottoman suzerainty in 1877–1878 and presently exercises independent foreign and defense policy...