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    Akrotiri and Dhekelia (/ˌækroʊˈtɪəri ənd diˈkeɪliə/), officially the Sovereign Base Areas of Akrotiri and Dhekelia (SBA), is a British Overseas Territory...
    52 KB (5,308 words) - 12:58, 26 June 2024
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    In modern usage, hijab (Arabic: حجاب, romanized: ḥijāb, pronounced [ħɪˈdʒaːb]) generally refers to various head coverings conventionally worn by many Muslim...
    131 KB (13,756 words) - 22:27, 17 July 2024
  • Amnesty International (also referred to as Amnesty or AI) is an international non-governmental organization focused on human rights, with its headquarters...
    152 KB (15,557 words) - 02:02, 20 July 2024
  • Anti-Arab racism (also called Anti-Arabism, Anti-Arab sentiment, or Arabophobia) includes opposition to, dislike, fear, or hatred of Arab people. Historically...
    115 KB (11,856 words) - 19:22, 13 July 2024
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    Bethsaida (/bɛθˈseɪ.ɪdə/ beth-SAY-id-ə; from Ancient Greek: Βηθσαϊδά, romanized: Bēthsaïdá; from Aramaic and Hebrew: בֵּית צַידָה, romanized: Bēṯ Ṣaiḏā...
    32 KB (3,962 words) - 22:50, 1 May 2024
  • Tripolis (Ancient Greek: Τρίπολις), formerly Ischopolis (Ἰσχόπολις), was an ancient fortress city in Pontus Polemoniacus (aka the Pontus region), on a...
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    Piracy in the Persian Gulf describes the naval warfare that was prevalent until the 19th century and occurred between seafaring Arabs in Eastern Arabia...
    44 KB (5,458 words) - 13:22, 9 July 2024
  • Anineta, also known as Aninetum or Anineton (Ancient Greek: Ἀνίνητον), was a town of ancient Lydia or of Caria, and later of the Roman, and Byzantine empires...
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    Population transfer or resettlement is a type of mass migration that is often imposed by a state policy or international authority. Such mass migrations...
    82 KB (9,392 words) - 21:00, 13 July 2024
  • Lunda or Lounda is an ancient city in Phrygia, Asia Minor (modern Turkey). Under the Roman Empire, it was in the province of Phrygia Prima (Pacatiana)...
    2 KB (138 words) - 04:13, 22 July 2022
  • Kike (/kaɪk/), also known as the K-word, is an ethnic slur directed at Jewish people. The earliest recorded use of the word dates to the 1880s.[disputed...
    6 KB (772 words) - 20:15, 1 June 2024
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    Fushenjan (Persian: فوشنجان also Romanized as Fūshenjān), also known as Pushtanghan (Persian: پشتنقان) or Pushenjan (Persian: پوشنجان) in the historic...
    6 KB (394 words) - 04:05, 28 December 2022
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    Al-Manshiyya (Arabic: المنشية) was a Palestinian Arab village in the Tiberias Subdistrict, located 11 kilometres south of Tiberias. It was probably depopulated...
    9 KB (612 words) - 08:33, 25 December 2021
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    Satanic Verses controversy The Satanic Verses controversy, also known as the Rushdie Affair, was a controversy sparked by the 1988 publication of Salman...
    111 KB (13,004 words) - 23:31, 16 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Human rights in Oman
    Oman is an absolute monarchy in which all legislative, executive, and judiciary power ultimately rests in the hands of the hereditary sultan, and in which...
    43 KB (5,068 words) - 22:21, 22 April 2024
  • The Armenian Catholic Eparchy of Sainte-Croix-de-Paris (Sainte-Croix-de-Paris of the Armenians , Holy Cross of Paris of the Armenians or France of the...
    3 KB (433 words) - 02:48, 25 January 2023
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    In the Hebrew Bible, Abner (Hebrew: אַבְנֵר ʾAḇnēr) was the cousin of King Saul and the commander-in-chief of his army. His name also appears as אבינר...
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  • 40°16′02″N 43°53′20″E / 40.26722°N 43.88889°E / 40.26722; 43.88889 Karmrashen (Armenian: Կարմրաշեն) is an abandoned[citation needed][dubious – discuss]...
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    Al-Shaykh Saad (Arabic: الشيخ سعد ash-Shaykh Saʿad; also Romanized Sheikh Saad), historically also called Karnaim and Dair Ayyub ("Monastery of Job"),...
    14 KB (1,295 words) - 22:34, 25 May 2022
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    31°50′59″N 35°40′43″E / 31.84972°N 35.67861°E / 31.84972; 35.67861 Abila (Arabic: ابيلا) was an ancient city east of the Jordan River in the Plains...
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