The role that Greek women played in the Greek War of Independence against the Ottoman Empire is not to be overlooked.

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An Osaka Metropolitan University historian has found that the Ottoman Empire’s seeming religious tolerance stemmed from ...

Population surveillance. The carrying of identification while traveling. Add to that the public presence of diverse religions ...

How the bold, hopeful visions of self-determination in Britain’s eastern colonies curdled into a more militant nationalism by the end of the second world war.

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