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Sentence Examples Incursions into the country, successively by the Persians, Byzantines, Mongols and Turks are all said to have left their mark on the cuisine. He also says that women fought among the men and even children threw bricks and paving stones at the Turks once they were inside the city. Since the tenth century, the Tajiks have been ruled by others, mostly Turks and Russians. At different times it has been occupied by Persians, Byzantines, Arabs, Mongols, Turks and Russians. Between the 4th and 19th centuries, Armenia was conquered and ruled by, among others, Persians, Byzantines, Arabs, Mongols, and Turks. The Turks made their dawn prayers and then advanced with castanets, tambourines, cymbals and terrifying war cries. This province already had a motley mixture of population, including Turks, Tatars, and Ukrainians. In the 1770s the Mamelukes came to power in Egypt under the nominal overlordship of the Ottoman Turks. It previously belonged to the Mamelukes, the Crusaders, the Ottoman Turks, and then Britain. The Romans and Turks knew all about the value of time spent in the baths, working your way slowly through the frigidarium and tepidarium. They were almost immediately set upon by the Turks, nor did the Byzantines come to their aid. In the mid-nineteenth century, Bosnians joined Slavs from Serbia and Croatia in an uprising against the Turks. Just as in the province of Kurdistan, there are Kurds, in Azerbaijan Turks, in Turkmenistan, Turkoman and in Baluchistan, Baluchis. Prominent Turks and Americans have been traveling this week in essentially opposite directions. He also opposed the Khwarizmian Turks, who had succeeded the Seljuks in Asia Minor and who now were trying to make Nasir subject to them. The RAF attacked the retreating Turkish columns, and helped force the Turks back to the Jordan. Smaller Kosovar ethnic groups such as the Ashkalia, Gorani, and Turks, speak their own languages and either Albanian, Serbian, or both. He says Germany's 2 million-plus Turks are the country's largest foreign ethnic group. The kilt they wear is called a fustanella and were worn by the klephts, the freedom fighters who fought the Turks in the war for Independence. The Turks and Greeks have made much of the lemon in their cooking, using it both as marinade and dressing. Show More Sentences Groups of ethnic Greeks and Turks waved at each other as they walked across the buffer zone that 24 hours earlier had been a no-man's land. As long as the birds were fertile and sang happily, Cypriot Turks maintained hope that they would one day regain their freedom. The Italian city-states kept squadrons of galleys and adapted carracks to defend their ports against the Ottoman Turks. Forging some 2,400 Croatians, Turks and Americans into an efficient roadbuilding work force has been as much a challenge as cutting the road. The event that forms Ararat's fulcrum is the 1915 attempted genocide of the Armenian people by the Turks of the Ottoman Empire. From the ninth century onwards the Turks began to enter the Caliphate, not in mass, but as slaves or adventurers serving as soldiers. The Turks invaded, in 1974, just as the island was edging towards reunion or enosis with Greece. Some Arab horsemen from behind the Turks galloped towards us, bucketing unhandily across the irrigation ditches. What is so brilliant about Turks is, quite simply, that their story is not just about Turks. My father is a mixture of Smyrnaic and Pontic Greek and the Pontic Greeks were exterminated by the Turks. Demographic growth and economic expansion have given the Turks increased weight in world affairs. Phoenicians, Romans, Byzantines, Vandals, Normans, Arabs, Turks, Spanish and French all laid their mark on the island. It was mined in ancient Greece and then sold to the Turks who used it to make a beautiful red dye known as Turkey red. The narrow isthmus, heavily defended by the Turks, was their battlefield for the next eight months. Ever since the Turks abandoned a large supply of coffee beans in 1683, the Viennese have been hooked on java. The Druze had been fighting the ruling Ottoman Turks for two hundred years. The Turks of the Ottoman Empire were the first culture to celebrate the beauty of the tulip and to begin to cultivate and hybridize the flower. Greeks, Turks, Russians, and even Bulgarians tend to claim the recipe as their own. The Turks and Caicos Islands are a British overseas territory situated in the North Atlantic Ocean, to the south east of The Bahamas. English classes are held three times a week for a group of nationalities that includes Somalians, Congolese, Turks and Iraqis. Show More Sentences The history of rise and decay repeated itself after the Osmanli Turks appeared on the scene. Warrick said the Turks used the pine logs to cover their trenches in defence against the attacking Australians. The treaty only served to anger the nationalist Turks who sought to overturn it. The shared part of the Armenian diet is the Mediterranean foods widely familiar among Arabs, Turks, Greeks. For the first fortnight the Turks assaulted the land defences, breaching the outer walls, but could still not get inside. Petko was popular among ethnic Bulgarians, Turks and Greeks because he defended the rights of all poor among them. The Turks numbered some 274 galleys and galliots with altogether 88,000 men. A European conference was summoned at Constantinople, but its decisions were rejected by the Turks, as were subsequent proposals by the powers. He currently has an office staff made up of two Americans, two Germans, two Turks, two Brazilians and two Greeks. In the seventeenth century, the Druze prince, Fakhreddine, used Beaufort as a base in his struggle against the Ottoman Turks. They have come and gone in the city's history, Abbasids and Ummayads and Mongols and Turks and British and now the Americans. The Turks are rampaging across Asia, the first Crusaders are at the Empire's gates, and warfare is about to break out. The Turks and Afghans who served in the Moghul Army are believed to have brought this dish to Hindustan. It is suggested that the latticed kibitka was adopted by the Turks of Southern Siberia from the Mongols. It is the home of various people including Albanians, Vlachs, Greeks, Serbs, Bulgars, and Turks. Growing up in the inner city in Melbourne, our neighbours consisted mainly of Greeks, Italians, some Turks and later, Lebanese. Statistics from the period show that the birth rate for Turks was about two percent compared to just above zero for Bulgarians. The Koreans and the Turks are still way up there, though so are the Czechs and the Slovaks. Asked to choose between the Kurds and the Turks we might well become confused. Turkey has claimed the deaths were the result of civil unrest at a time of war and that Turks and Kurds also lost their lives. Show More Sentences Eventually the Kurds and the Turks sorted everything out and our convoy rolled out of Silopi. The author presents this famous weapon of Osman Turks and the collection of yataghans in the State Museum of Oriental Art. One contingent of British troops reached the oilfields of Baku, which it occupied until September, when the Turks reoccupied the area. Modern Turkish is descended from Old Anatolian, the language brought to Asia Minor by the Seljuk Turks in the 11th century. Official claims that the majority of Turks are well integrated here are pure eyewash. All the Armenians soldiers in Ethiopia are pushing Mardekian to win, because they want a symbolic vengeance against the Turks. The Turks have a history of empire and the country is a place of bazaars, rugs and carpets, strong coffee and many other delights. He would like to deny that history which depicts Turks as assassins, or apportion blame to the Armenians. However, Napoleon's invasion led the Russians to make peace with the Turks. Louis and the rest of the army arrived on the tableland and were immediately attacked by the Turks. His eyewitness account describes the progressive stranglehold devised by the Turks and the sense of fatalism that developed within the city. Here, the Turks had heavily mined the water and mine sweeping trawlers had proved ineffective at clearing them. But Erdogan has succeeded by governing with a controlling style that many Turks are growing to resent. And nobody, not even the Turks, has yet interceded on their behalf. It morphed again in 1458 when the Ottoman Turks converted the structure into a mosque. Despite their relative remoteness, the Turks and Caicos Islands are easily accessed from this part of the world, via non-stop British Airways flights from London. We and the Russians and the French, and the UN, and the Turks and the other Arabs, permitted millions of people to die or be reduced to misery and pauperdom. The Turkmens are perhaps closest to the modern Turks of today. Presumably the Turks were either waiting patiently for this lengthy speech to finish before starting the battle, or were enjoying a set-piece speech of their own. According to Sacha Vierny, the French don't call it French cricket but Turkish Bowls or la Boule Turque, on account of the Turks being known to wear baggy trousers. Show More Sentences The greatest battle of the campaign was fought on the Suvla plain on 21 August, but, despite grievous losses, the greatly reinforced Turks held their ground. Hague and Portillo were the young Turks of the latter Tory years. The Turks, the Turkish government will strongly oppose that. Russians still make up 34.7 percent of the population, and other non-Kazakhs such as Ukrainians, Koreans, Turks, Chechnians, and Tatars, make up another 17 percent. But the Turks were never just Ottomans, or Muslims, or even Asiatics. In 1526, a young Hungarian king fell in a battle with the Ottoman Turks. As a result, Russia needed naval commanders and Jones was given the rank of rear admiral and sent to fight the Turks. The next day she suffered the embarrassment of the Turks announcing that no such approval had been granted. Turkey and Turks have an historical responsibility for region and us. They are Kurds, Iraqis, Somalis, Turks, Bosnians, who live on the periphery of the city. These princes of Transylvania, as well as their successors in the following century, were all eager to prepare the liberation of Hungary from both Germans and Turks. All trade in Greek wine ceased in the late 15th century, when, after the fall of Byzantium, the Ottoman Turks occupied the Peloponnesian shore and drove out its inhabitants. During several centuries of common statehood, the Abkhaz, Armenians, Turks, and Ossetians partly preserved their cultural identities, while Albanians were fully assimilated. In 1517 the Ottoman Turks captured Cairo and overthrew the Mamelukes. Misfortune and politics place them between the Arabs, Turks and Persians. Characters often include such villains as devils, infidels, demons, Turks, and sometimes Englishmen, and the action emphasizes the struggle between good and evil. In nineteenth-century Turkey, for instance, many Armenians were afraid that if they were heard speaking Armenian, their tongues might be cut out by Turks. Other groups include Germans, Gypsies, Romanians, Slovenians, and Turks. The political structures established by the Ottoman Turks in the 1500s, especially in Iraq and Syria, have crumbled. It turned out she was Turkish Cypriot and had had an affair with a Greek Cypriot, and because Turks and Greeks didn't get on back then, her friends disowned her. Show More Sentences The bloodthirsty Young Turks of Bohane bide their time, waiting in the shadows to shank and supplant their revelry-addled elders. The Turks had acquired the culture of power of Persia and implemented its political and administrative traditions in the subcontinent. The more civilized so-called Caucasian races have beaten the Turks hollow in the struggle for existence. The Young Turks, as might have been expected, wrote in their customary flippant, cheeky style. During his scouting operations, Nelson had developed a plan to assault the French garrison of the Turks Islands. The Turks also had difficulties, losing control of Jerusalem to the Fatimids of Egypt and suffering from a series of internal civil wars. It was founded in 1764 and met in a suite of rooms on the first floor of the Turks Head at 9 Gerrard Street, now marked by a plaque. When in 1783 the landlord of the Turks Head died and the property was sold, The Club moved to Sackville Street. The factionalism amongst the Turks that followed the death of Malik Shah meant they did not present a united opposition. In 1394, Pope Boniface IX proclaimed a new Crusade against the Turks, although the Western Schism had split the papacy. A Stoplight Parrotfish in Princess Alexandra Land and Sea National Park, Providenciales, Turks and Caicos Islands. Bermuda was in de facto control of the Turks Islands, with their lucrative salt industry, from the late 17th century to the early 19th. Amid British preparations for war, the Russians and Turks agreed to discussions at Berlin. General Yudenich, the Russian commander from 1915 to 1916, drove the Turks out of most of the southern Caucasus with a string of victories. In the east, the Ottoman Turks took Baghdad from the Persians in 1535, gaining control of Mesopotamia and naval access to the Persian Gulf. The Ottoman Turks began using falconets, which were short but wide cannons, during the Siege of Constantinople. Consequently, the Young Turks movement began when these relatively young and newly trained men returned with their education. Establishing effective control over the Turks Islands, Bermudians deforested their landscape to begin the salt trade. Most importantly, they dominated the North American salt trade with de facto control of the Turks Islands. The southern Bahama Islands and the Turks and Caicos Islands were completely depopulated by about 1513, and remained so until the 17th century. Show More Sentences In 1799, both the Turks and the Caicos island groups were annexed by Britain as part of the Bahamas. In 1848, Britain designated the Turks and Caicos as a separate colony under a council president. When Jamaica was granted independence from Britain in August 1962, the Turks and Caicos Islands became a Crown colony. Beginning in 1965, the governor of the Bahamas also was governor of the Turks and Caicos Islands and oversaw affairs for the islands. Mouchoir Bank is part of the Turks and Caicos Islands and falls within its Exclusive Economic Zone. A great number of tourists who visit the Turks and Caicos Islands are Canadian. I believe that most people in the Turks and Caicos will welcome these changes. Because the Turks and Caicos is a British Overseas Territory and not an independent country, they, at one time, could not confer citizenship. The Ministry of Health, Education, Youth, Sports, and Women's Affairs oversees education in Turks and Caicos. They have to commit to working in The Turks and Caicos Islands for four years to receive this additional education. Providenciales International Airport is the main entry point for the Turks and Caicos Islands. Turks and Caicos's newspapers include the Turks and Caicos Weekly News, the Turks and Caicos SUN and the Turks and Caicos Free Press. There he convinced the Sultan to reject the Russian treaty proposal, as compromising the independence of the Turks. At sea the Turks sent a fleet east which was destroyed by Admiral Nakhimov at Sinope. On 4 August Russian scouts saw a movement which they thought was the start of a withdrawal, the Russians advanced and the Turks attacked first. In September 8,000 Turks landed at Batum, but the main concentration was at Sukhum Kale. Furthermore, in recent years, there has been a growing number of ethnic Turks with German, or Dutch citizenship immigrating to Britain. In 1915, the British signed a treaty with the Idrsids guaranteeing their security and independence if they would fight against the Turks. A number of the United Kingdom's overseas territories have controlled access highways, including the Turks and Caicos Islands and Cayman Islands. Egypt was conquered by the Ottoman Turks in 1517, after which it became a province of the Ottoman Empire. Show More Sentences With the fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks in 1453, the land route to Asia became much more difficult and dangerous. The aircraft crashed into the sea somewhere near the Turks and Caicos, shortly after the distress call. The Turks made the city the capital of their Ottoman Empire, which lasted until 1922 and included Egypt, Syria and most of the Balkans. While 2,000 Turks left Austria in the same year, 10,000 immigrated to the country, confirming a strong trend of growth. The Turks and the Kurds are the largest single immigrant group in Austria, closely followed by the Serbs. Moldavia was invaded repeatedly by Crimean Tatars and, beginning in the 15th century, by the Turks. The culture has been also influenced by the Byzantine culture, the neighbouring Magyar and Slavic population, and later by the Ottoman Turks. Other minorities include Ukrainians, Germans, Turks, Lipovans, Aromanians, Tatars, and Serbs. In 1822 and 1824 the Turks and Egyptians ravaged the islands, including Chios and Psara, committing wholesale massacres of the population. In the later part of his reign, John focused his activities on the East, personally leading numerous campaigns against the Turks in Asia Minor. In the east, however, Manuel suffered a major defeat in 1176 at the Battle of Myriokephalon, against the Turks. Constantly under attack, it distanced Western Europe from Persians, Arabs, Seljuk Turks, and for a time, the Ottomans. Despite the link with Byzantium, it also maintained good relations with the Turks, enabling it to serve as central Italy's gateway to the Orient. Preferring peace to total war both against the Turks and by sea, Venice surrendered the bases of Lepanto, Durazzo, Modon, and Coron. Despite victory at sea over the Turks, Cyprus remained under Ottoman rule for the next three centuries. The Turks took the islands of Tinos and Aegina, crossed the isthmus, and took Corinth. Europe at the time was threatened by the invading armies of the Ottoman Turks and was desperate for allies. There was the possibility of an alliance between Timur and the European states against the Ottoman Turks attacking Europe. To handle and avoid any threats posed by the Turks, the Sui government repaired fortifications and received their trade and tribute missions. The Sui stirred trouble and conflict amongst ethnic groups against the Turks. Show More Sentences As early as the Sui dynasty, the Turks had become a major militarized force employed by the Chinese. Under Emperor Gaozong, a campaign led by the general Su Dingfang was launched against the Western Turks ruled by Ashina Helu. Following a revolt of the Eastern Turks in 679, the Tang abandoned its Korean campaigns. The Turks also built The Qishla of Jeddah, a small castle for the city soldiers. The Pontificate of Nicholas saw the fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks, and decrees which effectively sanctioned slavery. Once again the Pope was attempting to raise support for a campaign against the advance of the Turks. The League was ostensibly formed against the Turks, but in reality it was made to expel the French from Italy. Many Mauritians volunteered to fight in Europe against the Germans and in Mesopotamia against the Turks. Though the trade was largely dominated by the Gujurati, other groups such as the Turks, Persians, Armenians, Tamils and Abyssinians traded there. Helu's defeat ended the Khaganate, strengthened Tang control of Xinjiang, and led to Tang suzerainty over the western Turks. Selling captives or prisoners was common practice among Africans, Turks, Berbers and Arabs during that era. They sold both Slavic and Baltic slaves, as well as Georgians, Turks, and other ethnic groups of the Black Sea and Caucasus. By 1529, in On War against the Turk, he was actively urging Emperor Charles V and the German people to fight a secular war against the Turks. According to an imperial ambassador to Istanbul in the middle of the sixteenth century, it was a sin for the Turks to print religious books. Until 1934, most Turks did not have surnames, so Hato's lack of a surname was quite typical for a Turkish family at this time. Our left wing, when they occupied the hills, saw four or five hundred Turks 'skirr away' in one body, and the machine-gunners found a target. The ultranationalist Young Turks could not accept the loss of Ottoman territory without a fight. He arrives at a time when jazz's discontented Young Turks have disdainfully turned away from their audiences and gone off to explore the way-out. For 200 years, Turks tried to change their civilization by making Turkey more Westernized. Amido Balde and Teemu Pukki staked their claim for more regular foootball under Lennon with a goal apiece against the Turks. Show More Sentences Germans knew the Turks as only workers, taxi-cab drivers or doner kebap sellers. Kurds comprise roughly 15 percent of the population and mostly live in regions where Turks are the majority. Croatians, naturally, were the fiendish enemy, second only to the Turks. Gul, who is on the third day in his stay in Bulgaria, visited Varna and then proceeded to Shumen where many ethnic Turks live. The idea of allowing a Kurdish statelet to evolve, perhaps eventually joining with Iraqi Kurdistan, is anathema to the Turks. During the events, he hid 45 children and 12 adults, most Uzbeks, Kurds, Tajiks and Turks, at his place and was bringing them food. General Hassan Firouzabadi warned the Turks to be absolutely sure they could control any overspill of violence from Syria. I was and will remain a president equally loyal to all, Macedonians, Albanians, Turks, Vlachs, Serbs, Roma, Bosniaks, etc. The survey said Turks went online the most for e-mailing, using chat rooms and reading newspapers and magazines. Alas for this honorless and faithless people, The Kurds of Ray, the Turks of Khamsa, the Lurs of Qazvin. Modern Ottoman studies indicate that the change in relations between the Ottoman Turks and central Europe was caused by the opening of the new sea routes. Erasmus of Rotterdam, an influential humanist and rejecter of war, regarded the Ottoman Turks as barbarians and monstrous beasts, and thus approved of war against them. The party is known for their pro-Kurdish stance but included people of many different backgrounds, with Kurds, Turks, Yezidis and a large number of women in Sunday's election. Yet we, Turks, learn about ISIL, an alternative universe that seems so far away yet exists even within our own borders, according to foreigners' accounts. Charles V left again to handle the advance of the Ottoman Turks. The Bahamas made perpetual attempts to claim the Turks for itself. Next stop, Santorini, or Thira, to give it its official name, for 'Santorini' is the name given it by the Venetians, who once contested these waters with the Ottoman Turks. He will then proceed to Shumen where many ethnic Turks live. You have probably met some Turks who understand both the mentality of the East and West and try to be peacemakers like Babis when the two cultures clash. And it is not the Turks who go to the Uyghur restaurants in Turkey but rather the Uyghurs, Kazakhs, Kyrgyz, Mongolians and Chinese who live in Turkey that dine there. Show More Sentences Originally the relationship was largely cooperative, but in 630 the Tang dynasty began an offensive against the Turks, capturing areas of the Mongolian Ordos Desert. In the early 13th century, a new wave of invaders, the Mongol Empire's armies, swept through the region but were eventually eclipsed by the Turks. In the 12th and 13th centuries, Central Asian Turks invaded parts of northern India and established the Delhi Sultanate in the former Hindu holdings. Tang Chinese soldiers and pirates enslaved Koreans, Turks, Persians, Indonesians, and people from Inner Mongolia, central Asia, and northern India. After the departure of the Turks, an international control was exercised over the quarantine station, but it was in fact placed under British administration. Manuel also endeavoured to promote another crusade against the Turks. Guillaume Dufay composed several songs lamenting the fall of the Eastern church, and the duke of Burgundy, Philip the Good, avowed to take up arms against the Turks. These Turks kept loyal to the Emperor and perished in the ensuing battle. Although they had fought at Talas, on June 11, 758, an Abbasid embassy arrived at Chang'an simultaneously with the Uyghur Turks bearing gifts for the Tang Emperor. When the Khitans began raiding northeast China in 605, a Chinese general led 20,000 Turks against them, distributing Khitan livestock and women to the Turks as a reward. After traditional land routes to India had been closed by the Ottoman Turks, Portugal hoped to use the sea route pioneered by Gama to break the once Venetian trading monopoly. The railway was started in 1900 at the behest of the Ottoman Sultan Abdul Hamid II and was built largely by the Turks, with German advice and support. In 1489, the first year of Venetian control of Cyprus, Turks attacked the Karpasia Peninsula, pillaging and taking captives to be sold into slavery. He required its leaders to swear to restore to the empire any towns or territories they might reconquer from the Turks on their way to the Holy Land. This battle opened the way for the Turks to settle in Anatolia. Later, with the conquest of Anatolia by the Seljuk Turks, missionaries would find easier passage to the lands then formerly belonging to the Byzantine Empire. Corfu was the only Greek island never conquered by the Turks. In 1516, the Turks settled in Algiers, and from 1520, the corsair Hayreddin Barbarossa under the command of Ottoman Empire, operated from that harbour. The Turks asserted to the British that they held sovereignty over the whole of Arabia, including Yemen as successor of Mohammed and the chief of the universal caliphate. By 1568, only Zabid remained under the possession of the Turks. Show More Sentences The Turks also named Hassan Emir of the Somali nation, and the Germans promised to officially recognize any territories the Dervishes were to acquire. Then there was a leavening of Albanians, Bessara bians, Bosnians, Bulgars, Moldavians, Montenegrins, Herzegovinians, Turks, and other diverse nationalities. Britain fought the Ottoman Empire, suffering defeats in the Gallipoli Campaign and in Mesopotamia, while arousing the Arabs who helped expel the Turks from their lands. Smaller groups are Indians, Arabs, Kurds, Turks and Africans. The Turks took up a strong position on the Kars road and attacked. However, the Austrians had begun to fear the Russians more than the Turks. Because the territory is not recognized by the International Olympic Committee, Turks and Caicos Islanders compete for Great Britain at the Olympic Games. As of 4 July 2012, Turks and Caicos Islands' football team shared the position of the lowest ranking national men's football team in the world at the rank of 207th. In 2002, the British Overseas Territories Act restored full British citizenship status to all citizens of British Overseas Territories, including the Turks and Caicos. Ethnic Greeks and Turks have lived together for centuries in Pyla, staying through the long years of communal violence, the 1974 fighting and a quarter century of partition. The Turks and Caicos Islands are most well known for ripsaw music. This trend brought into circulation in the Mughal atelier the combined aesthetic sensibilities of the Franks and the Turks, also introducing local Indic elements. The official language of the islands is English and the population also speaks Turks and Caicos Islands Creole which is similar to Bahamian Creole. The Turks and Caicos Islands are a British Overseas Territory. The Turks and Caicos Islands feature a relatively dry and sunny marine tropical climate with relatively consistent temperatures throughout the course of the year. While the Turks are rendered as irreformable barbarians, and the Serbs only a little less so, the attribute of civilization is never denied the Greeks. Together with nearby islands, all on Turks Bank, those two main islands form two of the six administrative districts of the territory that fall within the Turks Islands. The two distinct island groups are separated by the Turks Islands Passage. In 1917, Canadian Prime Minister Robert Borden suggested that the Turks and Caicos join Canada, but this suggestion was rejected by British Prime Minister David Lloyd George. The Turks and Caicos Islands, an associate member of CARICOM, and the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, a full member of CARICOM, are in the Atlantic, but near to the Caribbean. Show More Sentences However, the Bosnian national carrier was renationalised last year when the Turks left, unhappy with the government's attitude towards the partnership. The tolerance displayed by the Turks was welcomed by the immigrants. The Turks suppressed the Bulgarian uprising harshly, and when reports of these actions escaped, Disraeli and Derby stated in Parliament that they did not believe them. A second, less successful, Crusade known as the Crusade of 1101 followed in which Turks led by Kilij Arslan defeated the Crusaders in three separate battles. A fire in 477 consumed the entire library but it was rebuilt only to be burned again in 726, 1204, and in 1453 when Constantinople fell to the Ottoman Turks. Voltaire also states that the Circassians used the inoculation from times immemorial, and the custom may have been borrowed by the Turks from the Circassians. The Turks were then free to invade Asia Minor, which dealt a dangerous blow to the Byzantine Empire by seizing a large part of its population and its economic heartland. In the 1060s, Robert Crispin led the Normans of Edessa against the Turks. Soon after the Normans began to enter Italy, they entered the Byzantine Empire and then Armenia, fighting against the Pechenegs, the Bulgars, and especially the Seljuk Turks. Another instance of the like nature is, that the old opinion, that Turks and infidels are perpetually to be considered as alien enemies, has been long exploded. Turks and Caicos cuisine is based primarily around seafood, especially conch. Turks and Caicos Islands has one of the longest coral reefs in the world and the world's only conch farm. Turks take a full kitchen, including a barbecue, bottled gas for making tea, porcelain plates, metal knives and forks, glasses, etc. Turks and Caicos also worked to refurbish its primary schools, reduce textbook costs, and increase equipment and supplies given to schools. Turks used carpets, rugs and kilims not just on the floors of a room, but also as a hanging on walls and doorways, where they provided additional insulation. Turks largely flouted the spottily enforced previous ban, but the new legislation comes packaged with a stern warning label about substantial fines for violators. Examples from Classical Literature The Turks congratulated me on my statement and one called me a Shaitan to his colleague. The previous day two wounded Turks, a machine-gun officer and a Red Crescent orderly, had arrived in the aid-post. If this were only true the Turks hereabout would have to retire on Baghdad. She waged successful war against the Turks, who had attempted to recover Azof. Then they turned and fled through the streets of Adrianople with a dozen Turks hotfoot after them. I lighted a cigar, and Akong smoked his hubble-bubble, a small copy of the nargileh of the Turks. British troops on the nablus road advancing north and the troops on their left advancing east drove the Turks back before them. Perhaps many are, but not town Turks, who consume quantities of raki, the strongest fire-water man ever invented. When Savoff defeated the Turks, it was rumoured that he sat in the Bulgar's councils. They say Rhangos is going to join the Turks, as many other klepht leaders have done. The Turks, however, now occupy sana, and the office of Imam is in abeyance. He likewise landed an ample supply of powder and ball, and left a sanjak with 500 Turks and five foists. The Turks in the first trench were bayoneted or ran away and a Maxim gun was captured. The Turks had ships of their own, which they brought into the Sea of Azof for the protection of the town. But after a short experience of Western tactics the Turks and Saracens foreswore the battlefield. This city, which was occupied by the Seljuk Turks, was strongly fortified by a solid wall, from which rose 350 towers. It is not to be wondered at that both Cretans and Turks were a little alarmed at the sight of these brawny, petticoated soldiers. On the one hand, it checked the rapid advance of Muhammadanism as represented by the Turks. He is no mujtahid, for such there are not now amongst the Sunns, to which sect the Turks belong. The laurels of the conqueror of the Turks drooped and withered in Flanders. Show More Sentences Klaproth, however, has shown that they belong to the former division, though subject to the Uzbek Turks. On her way, she was fortunate enough to capture four vessels laden with stores and provisions for the Turks of Negropont. It was necessary to repeople his capital and to attract others than Turks to it. The fugitive Turks were invested within the walls of Tripolitza, Patras, and other strong towns. The entrenched Turks were strong enough to withstand the attack of the Bulgarian forces. The voivode has been captured by the Turks on his return, and is held by them at Ilsin. The Venetian aid that had been promised did not arrive even at Euboea till two days after the Turks had captured the city. In 1659 it was again burned by the walachian prince Mircea, and for the time the Turks were expelled, but afterwards returned. In proportion, so his foxlike brain reasoned, as his alien subjects were weak, so were the Turks strong. Tourists as nuns, tourists as Turks, tourists as God-knows-what, all preening and peacocking! The Turks directed a perfect tornado of rifle, Maxim, and pompom fire on 200 men who made a dash down the gangway. It is valued as an odoriferous unguent and cosmetic by the Turks. Besides, to this day, the highly enlightened Turks devoutly believe in the historical story of Jonah. Ypsilanti was defeated in his first encounter with the Turks. In 1821 the Turks routed the troops of Ypsilanti near the town. At the time I embarked on the Abraham Lincoln, the whole of this island had risen in insurrection against the despotism of the Turks. The Turks of Anatolia had many valuable qualities as soldiers. There were attendants, running Turks, and guards before to clear the way. A united Balkan Peninsula would have kept off the Turks, no doubt. Anyhow no one, not even Barbarossa, could hold the Turks back now. Show More Sentences In Bessarabia, Turks and Moldavians are the predominant population. The brigantine was not a Turks Islands boat, but a coaster from Jamaica. The Turks are still withdrawing troops from the Caucasus front to ours. And I consider myself a young Turk in the newsroom, even though the actual young Turks think of me as some sort of bumbling eminence grise. Find more words! 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