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Hace 19 horas · The name Turkey appears in Western sources after the late 11th century, referring to the Seljuk-controlled lands in Anatolia and the Near East. European writers started using Turchia for the Anatolian plateau by the end of the 12th century. The English name Turkey (from Medieval Latin Turchia, Turquia) means "land of the Turks". Middle English usage of Turkye is evidenced in Geoffrey Chaucer's ...
Hace 19 horas · Events leading to World War I. The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand [a] was one of the key events that led to World War I. Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, were assassinated on 28 June 1914 by Bosnian Serb student Gavrilo Princip.
Hace 19 horas · Al-Ghazali was born in c. 1058 in Tus, then part of the Seljuk Empire. [49] He was a Muslim scholar, law specialist, rationalist, and spiritualist of Persian descent. [50] [51] He was born in Tabaran, a town in the district of Tus, Khorasan (now part of Iran ), [49] not long after Seljuks entered Baghdad and ended Shia Buyid Amir al-umaras.
