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2 days ago · The Abbasid Caliphate or Abbasid Empire ( / əˈbæsɪd, ˈæbəsɪd /; Arabic: الْخِلَافَة الْعَبَّاسِيَّة, romanized : al-Khilāfa al-ʿAbbāsiyya) was the third caliphate to succeed the Islamic prophet Muhammad. It was founded by a dynasty descended from Muhammad's uncle, Abbas ibn Abd al-Muttalib (566–653 CE ), from whom the dynasty takes its name. [8] .
3 days ago · Islamic paper makers devised assembly-line methods of hand-copying manuscripts to turn out editions far larger than any available in Europe for centuries. It was from these countries that the rest of the world learned to make paper from linen.
2 days ago · The Tang dynasty ( / tɑːŋ /, [6] [tʰǎŋ]; Chinese: 唐朝 [a] ), or the Tang Empire, was an imperial dynasty of China that ruled from 618 to 907, with an interregnum between 690 and 705. It was preceded by the Sui dynasty and followed by the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period.
5 days ago · But the treatment of the historical legacy demonstrates selectivity just as the (non-)application of the intertemporal principle does. During the existence of the German Democratic Republic, the Federal Constitutional Court stressed in a ruling of 1972 that the Federal Republic of Germany is identical with the German empire (Deutsches Reich).
1 day ago · The 524.3'x88'6" Empire State VII, delivered in summer 2023 by Philly Shipyard as the first of five new purpose-built, modern training vessels for U.S. state maritime academies, sailed from Port Canaveral, Fla., June 28 bound for Portsmouth in the UK. “When the ship departed from Port Canaveral to Portsmouth, UK, last Saturday, all fuel oil ...
4 days ago · Read Empire’s world-exclusive Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga cover feature – delving into the guzzoline-fuelled madness of the action-packed shoot, with George Miller, Anya Taylor-Joy, Chris ...
5 days ago · Summarize this Article. Napoleon I (born August 15, 1769, Ajaccio, Corsica—died May 5, 1821, St. Helena Island) was a French general, first consul (1799–1804), and emperor of the French (1804–1814/15), one of the most celebrated personages in the history of the West.
