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  • ...[Greek genocide]]s.<ref name="Travis2">Travis, Hannibal. ''Genocide in the Middle East: The Ottoman Empire, Iraq, and Sudan''. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic ...documents report widespread sexual violence against Chaldean women of all ages and the looting and destruction of the houses of about five-sixth of the Ch
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  • ...ng of eggs with the feast of the resurrection of Christ, and by the Middle Ages this practice was so widespread that in some places Easter Day was called E ...eception of spring, particularly in matter of bonfires. Then, through long ages there seem to have lingered among the people ''Easter-games'' so-called, wh
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  • ===Middle Ages=== ...ref name=mdumper>{{cite book|last=Dumper|first=Michael|title=Cities of The Middle East and North Africa: A Historical Encyclopedia|pages=130|url=http://books
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  • ...r the [[Arab tribe]] of "Banu Hamdan", who ruled [[Mosul]] in the [[middle ages]]. ...naturally in a hilly rock formed geologically of hardened pebbles. In the middle cave which is the largest stands what looks like an altar formed of piled s
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  • ...ical]] language, similar to the position occupied by [[Latin]] in [[Middle Ages|medieval]] Europe. ...(c. 1940 BC), Sumer came under [[Amorite]]s rule (taken to introduce the [[Middle Bronze Age]]). The independent Amorite states of the 20th to 18th centuries
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  • ...tamia'' comes from the [[ancient Greek]] root words μέσος (''meso'') "middle" and ποταμός (''potamia'') "river" and literally means "(Land) betwe ...=bahrani/><ref>Scheffler, Thomas; 2003. “ 'Fertile crescent', 'Orient', 'Middle East': the changing mental maps of Southeast Asia,” ''European Review of
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  • ...the major power in the region after [[Hammurabi]] (fl. c. 1792 – 1752 BC middle chronology, or c. 1696&nbsp;– 1654 BC, [[short chronology timeline|short *middle chronology: 1595 BC
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  • ...the [[Uí Néill]] dynasties, which dominated Ireland in the early Middle Ages, and their descendants.
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  • ...the use of concubines. Furthermore, he consecrated his own nephews at the ages of twelve and fifteen as metropolitan bishops. These actions led to wide pr ...Press]] |isbn=978-0-521-81113-2 |chapter=Syriac Christianity in the modern Middle East|page=527}}</ref> Sulaqa's appointment as patriarch was ratified by the
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  • ...adian Empire|Akkad]] (central [[Mesopotamia]]); [[lingua franca]] of the [[Middle East]] and [[Egypt]] in the late [[Bronze Age|Bronze]] and early [[Iron Age *Middle Babylonian/Chaldean, 1530–1000 BC
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  • ...al sequence, is an issue that gradually clarified starting from the Middle Ages, coinciding with the Mongol penetration that broke through the barriers of ...d his report was rich in information on the situation of Christians in the Middle East. Turning to the Church of the East, he says (and we are translating he
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