Albania is the Medieval Latin name of the country, which is called Shqip?ri by its people, from Medieval Greek ?λβαν?α Albania, besides variants Albanitia or Arbanitia.The name may be derived ...
The earliest recorded use of the term "Industrial Revolution" seems to have been in a letter of 6 July 1799 written by French envoy Louis-Guillaume Otto, announcing that France had entered the race to ...
Karl Marx considered capitalism to be a historically specific mode of production (the way in which the productive property is owned and controlled, combined with the corresponding social relations bet ...
Economic trade for profit has existed since at least the second millennium BC. However, capitalism in its modern form is usually traced to the emergence of agrarian capitalism and mercantilism of the ...
The name Dānuvius is presumably a loan from a Scythian language, or possibly Gaulish. It is one of a number of river names derived from a Proto-Indo-European language word *dānu, apparently a term f ...
Hungary is a unicameral parliamentary representative democratic republic. Members of Parliament (országgy?lési képvisel?, pl. képvisel?k) are elected to the highest organ of state authority, th ...
Before 895 Main articles: Hungarian prehistory and Hungarian mythologyItalian fresco depicting a Hungarian warrior shooting backwardsThe Roman Empire conquered the territory west of the Danube between ...
In 1206, Genghis Khan established a powerful dynasty among the Mongols of central Asia. During the 13th century, this Mongol Empire conquered most of the Eurasian land mass, including both China in th ...
The Abbasid caliphs were Arabs descended from Abbas ibn Abd al-Muttalib, one of the youngest uncles of Muhammad and of the same Banu Hashim clan. The Abbasids claimed to be the true successors of Muha ...
According to chronicles from the Byzantine Empire, the Ak Koyunlu were present in eastern Anatolia from at least 1340, and most of their leaders, including the dynasty's founder, Uzun Hassan, married ...
A proper term for the Safavid society is what we today can call a meritocracy, meaning a society in which officials were appointed on the basis of worth and merit, and not on the basis of birth. It wa ...
Genealogy—The Ancestors of The Safavids and its multi-cultural identitySee also: Safavid dynasty family tree, Safaviyya, Safvat as-safa, Silsilat-al-nasab-i Safaviya and Firuz Shah Zarin-KolahThe Saf ...
Born in Amasya, Selim dethroned his father Bayezid II (1481–1512) in 1512. Bayezid’s death followed immediately thereafter. Selim put his brothers (?ehzade Ahmet and ?ehzade Korkut) and nephews to ...
A population estimate for the empire of 11,692,480 for the 1520–1535 period was obtained by counting the households in Ottoman tithe registers, and multiplying this number by 5. For unclear reasons, ...
The Second Constitutional Era began after the Young Turk Revolution (3 July 1908) with the sultan's announcement of the restoration of the 1876 constitution and the reconvening of the Ottoman parliame ...
