My educators never spoke of Sarah Aarohnson, one of the founders of the Jewish spy ring known as the Nili who helped the British in the first World War and who committed suicide rather than give up information to her Ottoman captors. . ..…
Only international scholars such which was lost in the destruction of official documents in the demise of the Ottoman Turkish Empire.. ..…
After WWI, Ottoman Empire was no more, and British took control of the land known as Palestine. ... The League of Nations adopted British Mandate in 1922, overturning Ottoman-era restrictions and creating legal right for Jewish people to settle anywhere between Jordan River and..…
Another effect of World War I was the end of the Turco-Ottoman Empire. ... Before World War I, American missionaries were welcomed in the Turco-Ottoman Empire. . ..…
During the dark years of Ottoman rule, Greece lost one of its most precious cultural treasures, Parthenon sculptures, when Thomas Bruce, Earl of Elgin, and ambassador of England Constantinople, took them down and transported them to England.. ..…
In the 15th century Skanderbeg, Albania’s founding father and a Resistance symbol, led his people’s heroic struggle against the Ottoman occupation. ..…
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