Signed after the WW1, the Treaty of Lausanne explicitly guarantees the security and protection of both Greek and Armenian Orthodox Christian minorities. Their religious institutions are being recognized officially by the state.[20][21]
In 2022, Christians were seen as being 0.2% of the population. This was mainly Armenian Apostolic Orthodox Christians, Roman Catholics, Syrian Orthodox Christians, Protestants, Armenian Catholics and Chaldean Christians, as well as smaller groups. It was noted that the number of Eastern Orthodox Christians had risen sharply, mainly due to refugees from Russia and Ukraine.[36]
In 2023, the country was scored 2 out of 4 for religious freedom; this was mainly due to disputes over land.[37] The Mor Ephrem Syriac Orthodox church, set to open on 8 October 2023, is the first church built since the foundation of the Republic of Turkey.[38]
Constantinople is generally considered to be the center and the "cradle of Orthodox Christian civilization".[43][44] From the mid-5th century to the early 13th century, Constantinople was the largest and wealthiest city in Europe.[45] The city became famous for its architectural masterpieces, such as Hagia Sophia, the cathedral of the Eastern Orthodox Church, which served as the seat of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, the sacred Imperial Palace where the Emperors lived, the Hippodrome, the Golden Gate of the Land Walls, and opulent aristocratic palaces. The University of Constantinople was founded in the fifth century and contained artistic and literary treasures before it was sacked in 1204 and 1453,[46] including its vast Imperial Library which contained the remnants of the Library of Alexandria and had 100,000 volumes.[47] The city was the home of the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople and guardian of Christendom's holiest relics such as the Crown of thorns and the True Cross. During most of its existence, the Byzantine Empire was one of the most powerful economic, cultural, and military forces in Europe.[48] The imperial role in the affairs of the Church never developed into a fixed, legally defined system.[49] Additionally, due to the decline of Rome and internal dissension in the other Eastern Patriarchates, the Church of Constantinople became, between the 6th and 11th centuries, the richest and most influential centre of Christendom.[50]
The Eastern Orthodox Church split from Rome during the Great Schism of 1054. With the arrival of the crusaders many Orthodox bishops, particularly in Antioch, were replaced by Latin prelates. After the Mongols defeated the Abbasid Caliphate in 1258, the Armenians and Nestorians had decent relations with the conquering Il-khans for a time, but by the end of the 14th-century many Syrian Orthodox and Nestorian churches were destroyed when the Turco-Mongolian ruler Temür raided West Asia.[40]
Turkey is also home to the Seven Churches of Asia, where the Revelation to John was sent. Apostle John is reputed to have taken Virgin Mary to Ephesus in western Turkey, where she spent the last days of her life in a small house, known as the House of the Virgin Mary, which still survives today and has been recognized as a holy site for pilgrimage by the Catholic and Orthodox churches, as well as being a Muslim shrine. The cave of the Seven Sleepers is also located in Ephesus.
In accordance with the traditional custom of the time, the Ottoman sultanMehmed II allowed his troops and his entourage three full days of unbridled pillage and looting in the Christian city of Constantinople, capital of the Roman Empire since its foundation by the Roman EmperorConstantine the Great in the 4th century AD, shortly after it was captured in 1453. Once the three days passed, he would then claim its remaining contents for himself.[52][53] However, by the end of the first day, he proclaimed that the looting should cease as he felt profound sadness when he toured the looted and enslaved city.[54][52] The cathedral of Hagia Sophia was not exempted from the pillage and looting and specifically became its focal point, as the Ottoman Turks believed it to contain the greatest treasures and valuables of the city.[55] Shortly after the defence of the Walls of Constantinople, the city collapsed and the Ottoman troops entered victoriously; the pillagers and looters made their way to the Hagia Sophia and battered down its doors before storming in.[56]
Throughout the period of the siege of Constantinople, the trapped Christian worshippers of the city participated in the Divine Liturgy and the Prayer of the Hours at the Hagia Sophia and the church formed a safe-haven and a refuge for many of those who were unable to contribute to the city's defence, which comprised women, children, elderly, the sick, and the wounded.[57][58] Being trapped in the church, the many congregants and yet more refugees inside became spoils-of-war to be divided amongst the Ottoman invaders. The building was desecrated and looted, with the helpless occupants who sought shelter within the church being enslaved.[55] While most of the elderly, the infirm/wounded, and sick were killed, and the remainder (mainly teenage males and young boys) were chained up and sold into slavery.[56]
The women of Constantinople also suffered from rape and sexual violence at the hands of Ottoman forces.[59] According to historian Barbaro, "all through the day the Turks made a great slaughter of Christians through the city". According to historian Philip Mansel, widespread persecution of the city's civilian inhabitants took place, resulting in thousands of murders and rapes, and 30,000 civilians being enslaved or forcibly deported.[60][61][62][63]George Sphrantzes says that people of both sexes were raped inside the church of Hagia Sophia.
The first capitulation concluded between the Ottoman Empire and a foreign state was that of 1535, granted to the Kingdom of France.[64] The Ottoman Empire was then at the height its power, and the French kingFrancis I had shortly before sustained a disastrous defeat at the Battle of Pavia. His only hope of assistance lay in the Ottoman sultanSuleiman I. The appeal to Suleiman on the ground of the common interest of the Kingdom of France and the Ottoman Empire in overcoming the power of the Holy Roman EmperorCharles V overweening power was successful; thus was established the Franco-Ottoman alliance, and in 1536 the capitulations were signed.[64] They amounted to a treaty of commerce and a treaty allowing the establishment of Christian Frenchmen in Ottoman Turkey and fixing the jurisdiction to be exercised over them: individual and religious liberty was guaranteed to them, the King of France was empowered to appoint consuls in Ottoman Turkey, the consuls were recognized as competent to judge the civil and criminal affairs of French subjects in Ottoman Turkey according to French law, and the consuls may appeal to the officers of the sultan for their aid in the execution of their sentences.[64] This, the first of the capitulations, can be seen as the prototype of its successors.[64]
Anglican, American Presbyterian, and German Lutheran missionaries arrived in the Ottoman Empire in the 19th century.[40] During the same period, there were nationalistic campaigns against Assyrians which often had the assistance of Kurdish paramilitary support. In 1915, Turks and Kurds massacred tens of thousands Assyrians in Siirt. Assyrians were attacked in the Hakkari mountains by the Turkish army with the help of Kurdish tribes, and many Christians were deported and about a quarter million Assyrians were murdered or died due to persecution. This number doubles if the killings during the 1890s are included.[65] Kurds saw the Assyrians as dangerous foreigners and enforcers of the British colonizers, which made it justifiable to them to commit ethnic cleansing. The Kurds fought the Assyrians also due to fears that the Armenians, or European colonial powers backing them, would assume control in Anatolia.[66] Kurdish military plundered Armenian and other Christian villages.[66]
During the tumultuous period of the First World War, up to 3 million indigenous Christians are alleged to have been killed. Prior to this time, the Christian population stood at around 20% -25% of the total. According to professor Martin van Bruinessen, relations between Christians and Kurdish and other Muslim peoples were often bitter and during World War I "Christians of Tur Abdin (in Turkey) for instance have been subjected to brutal treatment by Kurdish tribes, who took their land and even their daughters".[72]
Kurdish-dominated Hamidiye slaughtered Christian Armenians in Tur Abdin region in 1915.[73] It is estimated that ten thousand Assyrians were killed, and reportedly "the skulls of small children were smashed with rocks, the bodies of girls and women who resisted rape were chopped into pieces live, men were mostly beheaded, and the clergy skinned or burnt alive...."[73] In 1915, Turks and Kurds plundered the Assyrian village of Mar-Zaya in Jelu and slaughtered the population, it is estimated that 7,000 Assyrians were slaughtered during this period. In September 1914 more than 30 Armenian and Assyrian villages were burnt by Kurdish and Turkish mobs in the Urmia region.[73] After the Russian army retreated, Turkish troops with Kurdish detachments organized mass slaughters of Assyrians, in the Assyrian village of Haftvan 750 men were beheaded and 5,000 Assyrian women were taken to Kurdish harems.[73] Turks and Kurds also slaughtered Christians in Diarbekir. There was a policy during the Hamidian era to use Kurdish tribes as irregulars (Hamidiye units) against the Armenians.[73][74][75][76]
Treaty of Lausanne
The Greek forces who occupied Smyrna in the post-war period were defeated in the Turkish War of Independence which ended with the signing of the Treaty of Lausanne. Under the terms of the peace treaty, 1.3 million Christian residents of Turkey were relocated to Greece and around 400,000 Muslims were likewise moved from Greece to Turkey. When the Turkish state was founded in 1923 the remaining Greek population was estimated to be around 111,000; the Greek Orthodox communities in Istanbul, Gökçeada, and Bozcaada numbering 270,000 were exempted. Other terms of the treaty included various provisions to protect the rights of religious minorities and a concession by the Turks to allow the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate to remain in Istanbul.[77]
Republic of Türkiye (1923–present)
The BBC reported in 2014 that Turkey's Christian population had declined from 20% to 0.2% since 1914.[78]
The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) designated Turkey a "Country of Particular Concern" for religious freedom, noting "systematic limitations on the freedom of religion or belief" with respect to access to places of worship, religious education and right to train clergy. The report does note some areas of improvement such as better protection of the property rights of non-Muslims.[79]
In the pre-war period American missionaries had been actively involved in the Ottoman education system. Many of the schools were closed down and suffered under stringent regulations and burdensome taxes during the country's secularization. Historically, these schools had worked with the Ottoman Empire's Christian communities, and were regarded with suspicion by the fledgling state.[80]
In 2001, Turkey's National Security Council reported that it considers Protestant missionaries the third largest threat to Turkey's national security, surpassed only by Islamic fundamentalism and the Kurdish separatist organization PKK. A 2004 report by the Turkish Armed Forces (TAF) similarly recommended implementing new laws to curb missionary activity. According to the Turkish Evangelical Churches movement, Turkish Protestant churches had only 3,000 members in 2009—about half of these were converts from Islam, while the others were converts from Armenian and Syriac Christianity.[81] Since Turkish nationality was often perceived exclusively as a Muslim identity after the Balkan Wars, the influence of Protestant missionaries on Turkey's Alevi population has been a concern since the era of Committee of Union and Progress rule.[81][82] In 2016 the Association of Protestant Churches in Turkey released a report warning of an increase in anti-Christian hate speech.[83]
Turkey's Christian community has been largely non-disruptive, with the notable exception of one convert, who hijacked Turkish Airlines Flight 1476 with the stated intent of flying it to the Vatican to meet the Pope and ask for his help to avoid serving in a "Muslim army".[84]
In 2013, the Washington Post reported that members of the ruling Justice and Development Party had expressed their desires to convert Hagia Sophia into a mosque. Hagia Sophia, which is called ayasofya in Turkish, is an ancient church dating to 360 AD that was converted into a mosque after Mehmed II conquered Constantinople in 1453. It has been a museum since 1935. Patriarch Bartholomew objected to the government's rhetoric, saying "If it is to reopen as a house of worship, then it should open as a Christian church."[85] Also in 2013, the government announced that the 5th-century Monastery of Stoudios, located in Istanbul's Samatya neighborhood, would be converted into a mosque. The monastery, one of Byzantium's most important, was sacked during the Crusades and later served as a mosque for a time, until it was converted to a museum during the 20th century.[86][87][88]
In 2015, the Turkish government gave permission for the Christian channel SAT-7 to broadcast on the government-regulated Türksat satellite.[97]
Since the establishment of the modern Turkish Republic in 1923, a number of high-profile incidents targeting non-Muslims, including Christians, have occurred. This includes the Istanbul pogrom of 1955, where non-Muslims were attacked and killed, as well as more recent attacks, such as the assassination of prominent Turkish Armenian journalist Hrant Dink in 2007, the torture and murder of one German Protestant and two Turkish converts in what Turkish media dubbed "the missionary massacres" in the same year,[98][99] and the killings of Italian priests, including Andrea Santoro, in 2006 and 2007. In January 2024, two gunmen fatally shot a man during a church service in Istanbul in an attack claimed by the Islamic State.[100]
Christian communities
By the 21st century, Turkey's Greek Orthodox population had declined to only around 2,000–3,000.[77] There are between 40,000 and 70,000 Christian Armenian citizens of Turkey.[39]
The largest Christian population in Turkey is in Istanbul, which has a large community of Armenians and Greeks. Istanbul is also where the Patriarchate of Greek Orthodox Christianity is located. Antioch, located in Turkey's Hatay province, is the original seat of the namesake Antiochian Orthodox Church, but is now the titular see. The area, known for having ethnic diversity and large Christian community, has 7,000 Christians and 14 active churches. The city has one of the oldest churches in the world as well, called the Church of St Peter, which is said to have been founded by the Saint himself.[101]
Tur Abdin is a large area with a multitude of mostly Syriac Orthodox churches, monasteries and ruins. Settlements in Tur Abdin include Midyat. The Christian community in Midyat is supplemented by a refugee community from Syria and has four operating churches.[102] Some of the most significant Syriac churches and monasteries in existence are in or near Midyat including Mor Gabriel Monastery and the Saffron Monastery.
The Syriac Orthodox Church has a strong presence in Mardin. Many Assyrians left during the genocides in 1915.[103]
By some estimates, in the early 2000s there were between 10,000 and 20,000 Catholics and Protestants in Turkey.[104] Since 1960 a growing number of Muslims in Turkey are converting to Christianity, estimates range from 4,000 to 35,000 by various sources.[92][105][106][107]
Archbishop Martin Kmetec told Aid to the Church in Need, in an interview, that ecumenical relations are generally good in the country. "In general, our relations with other Christian churches are good. The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, Bartholomew I, for example, has a good relationship with the Focolare Movement and the new Apostolic Vicar of Istanbul, Bishop Massimiliano Palinuro. Likewise, here in İzmir we get together with the Orthodox Christians, but also with the Anglicans, on various Christian feast days. Armenian priests recently celebrated an Armenian liturgy at our Catholic Church of St. Polycarp because they do not have their own church in İzmir. We also worked together with the Armenians in İzmir to open a small book shop for the Bible Society. These are promising signs of an ecumenical dialogue."[108]
There are 35 churches maintained by the religious foundation in Istanbul and its surrounding areas. Besides Surp Asdvadzadzin Patriarchal Church (translation: the Holy Mother-of-God Armenian Patriarchal Church) in Kumkapi, Istanbul, there are tens of Armenian Apostolic churches. There are other churches in Kayseri, Diyarbakır, Derik, İskenderun, and Vakifli Koyu that are claimed by foundations as well. Around 1,000 Armenian churches throughout Turkey sit on public or privately owned land as well, with them all either being re-purposed or abandoned and/or in ruins.
Armenian Catholic Church - There are several Armenian Catholic churches in Istanbul, including a large cemetery. In Mardin one remains as a Museum and occasional religious center.
The start of the Patriarchate can be traced to the Greco-Turkish War (1919–1922). In 1922 a pro-Turkish Eastern Orthodox group, the General Congregation of the Anatolian Turkish Orthodox, was set up with the support from the Orthodox bishop of Havza, as well as a number of other congregations[113] representing a genuine movement among the Turkish-speaking, Orthodox Christian population of Anatolia[111] who wished to remain both Orthodox and Turkish.[114] There were calls to establish a new Patriarchate with Turkish as the preferred language of Christian worship.[115]
In 1924, Karahisarithis started to conduct the Christian liturgy in Turkish, and quickly won support from the new Turkish Republic formed after the defeat and dissolution of the Ottoman Empire (1908–1922).[116] He claimed that the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople was ethnically centered and favored the Greek population. Being excommunicated by the Greek Orthodox Church for claiming to be a bishop while still having a wife and due to the fact that married bishops are not allowed in Orthodoxy, Karahisarithis, who later changed his name into Zeki Erenerol, called a Turkish ecclesial congress, which elected him Patriarch in 1924.
The Catholic Church in Turkey is represented by jurisdictions of Western and Eastern rites. Though the Armenian Apostolic Church was no longer in union with Rome and Byzantium after the Council of Chalcedon, a number of Armenians have converted to Catholicism over the years. After the Ottoman sultan Mahmud II extended formal recognition to Roman Catholics, an Armenian Catholic Patriarchate was established in Constantinople.[123][124]
The Syriac Orthodox Church, that follows the West Syriac Rite, was present in various southeastern regions of modern Turkey since the early medieval times. Since the 12th century, the patriarchal seat itself was transferred to Mor Hananyo Monastery (Deir al-Za`faran), in southeastern Anatolia near Mardin (modern Turkey), where it remained until 1924. In modern times, active churches are located in Istanbul, Diyarbakır, Adıyaman, and Elazığ.[125] There are many both active and inactive churches in the traditionally Neo-Aramaic area of Tur Abdin, which is a region centered in the western area of Mardin Province, and has areas that go into Şırnak, and Batman Province. Up until the 1980s the Syriac population was concentrated there as well, but a large amount of the population has fled the region to Istanbul or abroad due to the Kurdish-Turkish conflict. The Church structure is still organized however, with 12 reverends stationed in churches and monasteries there.[126] Churches were also in several other provinces as well, but during the Seyfo the churches in those churches were destroyed or left ruined.
In modern times, Syriac Orthodox Church hase these provinces in Turkey:[127]
Historical Church of the East, that followed the East Syriac Rite, was present in various southeastern regions of modern Turkey throughout medieval and early modern times, and the continuation of that presence is embodied in the modern Assyrian Church of the East, and the Ancient Church of the East. Ecclesiastical structure of East Syriac Christianity in the region was almost completely wiped out in the Assyrian genocide. Originally, one of its main centers was in the region of Hakkari, in the village of Qodchanis, that was the seat of Shimun-line patriarchs from the 17th century up to the advent of modern times. Patriarch Mar Dinkha IV of the Assyrian Church of the East visited Turkey in 2012.[128]
Armenian Protestants own 3 churches in Istanbul since the 19th century.[129] There is an Alliance of Protestant Churches in Turkey.[130] There are Protestant churches for foreigners in compounds and resorts, although they are not counted in lists of churches as they are used only by tourists and expatriates.
Church of England
Anglicans in Turkey form part of the Eastern Archdeaconry of the Diocese of Gibraltar in Europe. In 2008 the Anglican bishop of Europe, Geoffrey Rowell, caused controversy by ordaining a local man to minister to Turkish-speaking Anglicans in Istanbul.[131]
Evangelical churches
The Armenian Evangelical Church was founded in 1846, after Patriarch Matteos Chouhajian excommunicated members of the "Pietisical Union" who had started to raise questions about a possible conflicts between the Biblical scriptures and Sacred traditions.[123] The new church was recognized by the Ottoman government in 1850 after encouragement from the British Ambassador Henry Wellesley Cowley.[132] There were reportedly 15 Turkish converts in Constantinople in 1864. One church minister said "We wanted the Turks first to become Armenian". Hagop A. Chakmakjian commented that "the implication was that to be Christian meant to be identified with the Armenian people".[133]
After Greeks left in 1925 due to the Population exchange between Greece and Turkey, it turned into an olive oil factory, for a period, and because of that the interior of the building changed. There are plans to be turned into a museum.
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Heft 1/1895 der Zeitschrift Russkaja Mysl (Der russische Gedanke) Drei Jahre (russisch Три года, Tri goda) ist eine Erzählung des russischen Schriftstellers Anton Tschechow, die 1895 im Januar- und Februarheft der Moskauer Zeitschrift Russkaja Mysl erschien.[1] In siebzehn Kapiteln werden die ersten drei Ehejahre des begüterten Moskauer Kaufmanns Aljoscha Laptew, eines Engros-Kurzwarenhändlers, mit seiner Gattin Julija beschrieben. Die ersten vier Kapitel handeln in der Provinz…
Railway station in Grafton, Massachusetts, US GraftonGrafton station in May 2012General informationLocation1 Pine StreetNorth Grafton, Grafton, MassachusettsCoordinates42°14′47″N 71°41′09″W / 42.2463°N 71.6859°W / 42.2463; -71.6859Line(s)Worcester LinePlatforms2 side platformsTracks2Connections WRTA: BConstructionParking373 spaces ($4.00 fee)Bicycle facilities8 spacesAccessibleYesOther informationFare zone8HistoryOpenedFebruary 23, 2000[1]Passengers201…
ميسييه 47 Messier 47 بيانات المراقبة (الدهر: J2000.0) الكوكبة الكوثل[1] المطلع المستقيم 07س 36د 06ث الميل °±14 ′30 ″00 البعد 1600 سنة ضوئية () القدر الظاهري (V) 4.2 الأبعاد الظاهرية (V) 30.0′ ميزات بارزة سرعة شعاعية 6 العمر 78 مليون سنة. تسميات أخرى إن جي سي 2422, م47 أنظر أيضًا: تجمع مفتوح، قائ…
United States Army general This article is about the U.S. Army General. For the U.S. Appellate Court Judge, see Levin H. Campbell. Levin Hicks Campbell Jr.Major General Campbell at a press conference in December, 1942Born(1886-11-23)November 23, 1886Washington, D.C.DiedNovember 17, 1976(1976-11-17) (aged 89)Annapolis, MarylandBuriedUnited States Naval Academy Cemetery, AnnapolisAllegiance United States of AmericaService/branch United States ArmyYears of service1911 – 194…
2016 studio album by SkeptaKonnichiwaStudio album by SkeptaReleased6 May 2016Recorded2013–2016GenreGrimeLength43:11LabelBoy Better KnowProducerSkepta (also exec.)BlakieFootsieJason AdenugaPharrell WilliamsRagz OriginaleSkepta chronology The Tim Westwood Mix(2015) Konnichiwa(2016) Vicious(2017) Singles from Konnichiwa That's Not MeReleased: 8 June 2014 ShutdownReleased: 26 April 2015 Ladies Hit SquadReleased: 14 February 2016 ManReleased: 14 April 2016 Konnichiwa is the fourth studio al…
Native American tribe OmahaUmoⁿhoⁿFlag of the Omaha Tribe of Nebraska and IowaOmaha tribal dancerTotal population6,000Regions with significant populations United States ( Nebraska, Iowa)LanguagesEnglish, Omaha-PoncaReligionChristianity, otherRelated ethnic groupsSiouan and Dhegihan peoples, esp. Ponca, Otoe, Osage, Iowa PeopleUmoⁿhoⁿLanguageUmoⁿhoⁿ Iyé,Umoⁿhoⁿ GáxeCountryUmoⁿhoⁿ Mazhóⁿ The Omaha (Omaha-Ponca: Umoⁿhoⁿ)[1] are a federally recogn…
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This article is about the shopping centre in Orchard Road, Singapore. For the private housing estate in Sha Tin, Hong Kong, see Lucky Plaza, Hong Kong. Shopping mall in Orchard, SingaporeLucky PlazaLocationOrchard, SingaporeCoordinates1°18′16.11″N 103°50′01.88″E / 1.3044750°N 103.8338556°E / 1.3044750; 103.8338556Address304 Orchard RoadOpening date1977 (Podium),[1] 1981 (Apartment)DeveloperFar East Organization, Ng Teng FongWebsiteluckyplaza.com.sg Luc…
(b.1911 d.1998), was a South African-born British plant pathologist. Margaret Agnes KeayOBEBorn(1911-06-11)11 June 1911Pretoria, South AfricaDied26 October 1998(1998-10-26) (aged 87)Cambridge, EnglandEducationUniversity of Cape TownNewnham College, CambridgeScientific careerInstitutionsUniversity of ReadingMakerere UniversityAhmadu Bello UniversityWye College Margaret Agnes Keay OBE (11 June 1911 - 26 October 1998), was a South African-born British phytopathologist. She played a role in the…
في علم الاحتمالات والإحصائيات، توزيع الاحتمال (بالإنجليزية: Probability distribution) هو إعطاء احتمال معين لكل مجموعة جزئية قابلة للقياس من مجموعة نتائج تجربة عشوائية ما. وبتعبير آخر، هو قياس احتمالي مجاله تطبيق جبر بوريل على مجموعة الأعداد الحقيقية.[1] التوزيع الاحتمالي يعتبر حا…
Cet article recense les sites classés ou inscrits en Essonne, en France. Liste Sites classés Réf. Site Communes Notes Superficie(ha) Date Coordonnées Photo 2005 Vallée de la Bièvre Buc, Guyancourt, Jouy-en-Josas, Les Loges-en-Josas, Versailles, Bièvres, Igny, Massy, Vauhallan, Verrières-le-Buisson Également dans les Yvelines 2 234,05 7 juillet 2000 48° 45′ 37″ nord, 2° 11′ 35″ est 3201 Cèdre Ris-Orangis Dans le square de la mairie 0,07 20 f…
See also: Al-Muntafiq Administrative division of the Ottoman Empire from 1538 to 1862 Arabic: إيالة البصرةOttoman Turkish: ایالت بصرهEyalet of the Ottoman Empire1538–1862The Basra Eyalet in 1609CapitalBasraHistoryHistory • Established 1538• Disestablished 1862 Preceded by Succeeded by Safavid dynasty Basra Vilayet Today part of Iraq Basra Eyalet (Arabic: إيالة البصرة, Ottoman Turkish: ایالت بصره, romanized: Eyālet-i Baṣrâ…
1961 studio album by Jimmy GiuffreFusionStudio album by Jimmy GiuffreReleased1961RecordedMarch 3, 1961StudioOlmstead Studios, New York CityGenreJazz, West Coast jazz, cool jazz, third stream, chamber jazzLabelVerve, reissued by ECM, 1992ProducerCreed TaylorJimmy Giuffre chronology The Jimmy Giuffre Quartet in Person(1960) Fusion(1961) Thesis(1961) Fusion is a 1961 album by the Jimmy Giuffre 3.[1] The trio on the recording was Giuffre's second drummerless group. He said at the tim…
Arondisemen Valence Administrasi Negara Prancis Region Rhône-Alpes Departemen Drôme Kanton 20 Komune 164 Préfecture Valence Statistik Luas¹ 2,521 km² Populasi - 1999 338,020 - Kepadatan 134/km² Lokasi Lokasi Valence di Rhône-Alpes ¹ Data Pendaftaran Tanah Prancis, tak termasuk danau, kolam, dan gletser lebih besar dari 1 km² (0.386 mi² atau 247 ekar) juga muara sungai. Arondisemen Valence merupakan sebuah arondisemen di Prancis, terletak di département Drôme, di r…
Kip ThorneLahirKip Stephen Thorne1 Juni 1940 (umur 83)Logan, UtahTempat tinggalAmerika SerikatKebangsaanAmerika SerikatAlmamaterCaltech, Universitas PrincetonDikenal atasRelativitas dan kosmologiPenghargaanPenghargaan Lilienfeld (1996)Medali Einstein (2009)[1]Penghargaan Terobosan Spesial dalam bidang Fisika Dasar (2016)Penghargaan Gruber Kosmologi (2016)Penghargaan Shaw (2016)Penghargaan Kavli (2016)Penghargaan Harvey (2016)Penghargaan Putri Asturias (2017)Penghargaan Nobel Fisika …
Scottish lawyer and antiquarian For the naval surgeon, see Alexander Nisbet (Royal Navy officer). For the judge, see Alexander Nisbet (judge). Memorial to Alexander Nisbet in Greyfriars Kirk, Edinburgh. Title page of A System of Heraldry. Alexander Nisbet (bapt. 23 March 1657; died 7 Dec. 1725) was a Scottish lawyer and antiquarian. He is remembered for his works on heraldry which are considered to be some of the most complete and authoritative produced in the UK. Life Nisbet was born in Edinbur…
Vaksin COVID-19 Moderna, salah satu vaksin RNA yang pertama kali mendapat izin penggunaan oleh badan pengawas obat. Vaksin COVID-19 Moderna dan Pfizer–BioNTech adalah vaksin RNA pertama yang mendapat izin untuk digunakan pada manusia. Negara yang telah mengizinkannya ditandai dengan warna ungu (Pfizer–BioNTech), hijau (Moderna), dan loreng (keduanya). Vaksin RNA atau vaksin mRNA adalah jenis vaksin yang menggunakan sebuah molekul alamiah yaitu RNA duta (dikenal juga dengan singkatan bahasa I…
Hotel in Washington D. C., United States Hilton Washington DC National Mall The WharfLooking east across L'Enfant Plaza at the Hilton Washington DC National MallLocation within Washington, D.C.General informationLocation480 L'Enfant Plaza SW, Washington, D.C.Coordinates38°53′2″N 77°1′26″W / 38.88389°N 77.02389°W / 38.88389; -77.02389OpeningMay 31, 1973OwnerL’Enfant DC Hotel LLCManagementHilton HotelsTechnical detailsFloor count6 (building: 12)[1]Desi…
Provinsi di AfganistanJuga dikenal sebagai:wilayatKategoriNegara kesatuanLetakKeamiran Islam AfganistanJumlah wilayah34 provinsiPenduduk117,991 (Nimruz) – 3,314,000 (Kabul)Luas711 mil persegi (1.840 km2) (Kapisa) - 22,619 mil persegi (58,58 km2) (Helmand)PemerintahanPemerintah provinsi, Pemerintah nasionalPembagian administratifDistrik Afganistan Artikel ini adalah bagian dari seri Politik dan KetatanegaraanAfganistan Eksekutif Amir (daftar) Hibatullah Akhundzada Perdana Menteri Moha…
Квантовая механика Введение[en] ИсторияМатематические основы Основа Классическая механика Постоянная Планка Интерференция Бра и кет Гамильтониан Старая квантовая теория Фундаментальные понятия Квантовое состояние Квантовая наблюдаемая Волновая функция Квантовая суп…
1961 Chinese animated feature film directed by Wan Laiming Havoc in HeavenDVD cover, a 2004 retroChinese nameTraditional Chinese大鬧天宮Simplified Chinese大闹天宫Literal meaninghavoc in TianTranscriptionsStandard MandarinHanyu PinyinDà nào tiān gōng Directed byWan LaimingWritten byLi KeruoWan LaimingProduced byWan brothersMusic byWu YingjuRelease date1961, 1964Running time114 mins (original), 92 mins (HD remaster)CountryChinaLanguageChinese (Mandarin) Havoc in Heaven, also trans…
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Anthony Woodville, Earl Rivers & William Caxton presenting the first printed book in English to Edward IV Periods in English history Prehistoric Britainuntil c. 43 ADBritish Iron Agec. 800 BCRoman Britainc. 43–410Sub-Roman Britain410-c. 449Anglo-Saxonc. 449–1066Norman1066–1154Plantagenet1154–1485Tudor1485–1603 Elizabethan1558–1603Stuart1603–1714 Jacobean1603–1625Caroline1625–1649(Interregnum)1649–1660Restoration1660–1714Georgian era1714–1837 Regency era1811–18…
Truck model by Finnish manufacturer Sisu Auto Motor vehicle Sisu PolarSisu Polar Works.OverviewManufacturerOy Sisu Auto AbAlso calledDK12MDK16MProduction2011–presentModel years2012-presentAssemblyRaseborg, FinlandBody and chassisLayoutStandard: 6×2, 6×4, 8×2, 8×4, 10×2, 10×4[1]Off-road: 6×4, 6×6, 8×8[2]RelatedMercedes-Benz ActrosPowertrainEngineMercedes-Benz V6, V8 or L6;310–460 kW → tableTransmission MB PowerShift G-280, automatic MB Telli…
British track and field athlete Eilidh DoyleDoyle competing (as Eilidh Child) at the 2012 Summer OlympicsPersonal informationBorn (1987-02-20) 20 February 1987 (age 37)Perth, ScotlandOccupation(s)Hurdler, RunnerYears active2009–2021Height1.71 m (5 ft 7 in)Weight59 kg (130 lb)SportCountry Great Britain ScotlandSportWomen's athleticsEvent(s)400 m hurdles, 400 m, 4 x 400 m relayClubPitreavie AAC, DunfermlineAchievements and titlesOlympic finals2016Worl…