TURKS

Meaning of TURKS in English

plural of turk

Webster's New International English Dictionary. Новый международный словарь английского языка Webster. 2012

TURKS — n. Turkic-speaking peoples; Turkish language, language spoken in Turkey, language spoken in the country in western Asia and southeastern Europe …
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YOUNG TURKS — Turkish Jntrkler, coalition of various reform groups that led a revolutionary movement against the authoritarian regime of Ottoman sultan Abdlhamid …
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TURKS AND CAICOS ISLANDS — British dependency in the West Indies, comprising two small groups of islands at the southeastern end of The Bahamas and …
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TURKEY
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CRUSADE — any of a series of military expeditions organized by Western Christians against Muslim powers in order to take possession of …
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WORLD WAR I — also called First World War, or Great War an international conflict that in 191418 embroiled most of the nations of …
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WALACHIA — also spelled Wallachia, Romanian Tara Romneasca, Turkish Iflak principality on the lower Danube River, which in 1859 joined Moldavia to …
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VIENNA, SIEGE OF — (July 17Sept. 12, 1683), expedition by the Turks against the Habsburg Holy Roman emperor Leopold I that resulted in their …
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TURKIC PEOPLES — any of various peoples whose members speak languages belonging to the Turkic subfamily of the Altaic family of languages. They …
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TRANSYLVANIA — Romanian Transilvania, Hungarian Erdly, German Siebenbrgen historic eastern European region. After forming part of Hungary (11th16th century), it was an …
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THOKOLY, IMRE — born Sept. 25, 1657, Ksmrk, Slovakia died Sept. 13, 1705, Izmit, Ottoman Empire [now in Turkey] Hungarian patriot, a leader …
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SERBO-TURKISH WAR — (187678), military conflict in which Serbia and Montenegro fought the Ottoman Turks in support of an uprising in Bosnia and …
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RUSSO-TURKISH WARS — series of wars between Russia and the Ottoman Empire in the 17th19th century. The wars reflected the decline of the …
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REPNIN, NIKOLAY VASILYEVICH, PRINCE (KNYAZ) — born March 11 [March 22, New Style], 1734 died May 12 , 1801, Moscow diplomat and military officer who served …
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PETER I — born c. 1747, , Njego, Montenegro died Oct. 18 [Oct. 30, New Style], 1830, Cetinje Montenegrin in full Petar Petrovic …
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NADIR SHAH — born Oct. 22, 1688, Kobhan, Safavid Iran died June 1747, Fathabad also spelled Nader Shah, original name Nadr Qoli Beg, …
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MYRIOCEPHALON, BATTLE OF — (September 1176), victory of the Seljuq Turks under Qlch Arslan II over the Byzantine army of Manuel I Comnenus in …
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MONGOLIA, FLAG OF
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MOLDAVIA — Moldavia in the mid-16th century Romanian Moldova, Turkish Bogdan principality on the lower Danube River that joined Walachia to form …
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MOHACS, BATTLE OF — (Aug. 29, 1526), decisive defeat of Hungary by the Turks, which marked the effective destruction of the Hungarian monarchy and …
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MILO — born March 7 [March 18, New Style], 1780, Srednja Dobrinja, Serbia [now in Yugoslavia] died Sept. 14 [Sept. 26], 1860, …
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KARADJORDJE — born Nov. 3 [Nov. 14, New Style], 1762, Vievac, Serbia [now in Yugoslavia] died July 13 , 1817, Radovanje byname …
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JOHN V PALAEOLOGUS — born 1332 died Feb. 16, 1391 Byzantine emperor (134191) whose rule was marked by civil war and increased domination by …
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GREEK INDEPENDENCE, WAR OF — (1821-32), rebellion of Greeks within the Ottoman Empire, a struggle which resulted in the establishment of an independent kingdom of …
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GRECO-TURKISH WARS — (1897 and 1921-22), two military conflicts between the Greeks and the Turks. The first war, also called the Thirty Days' …
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CARLOWITZ, TREATY OF — Carlowitz also spelled Karlowitz (Jan. 26, 1699), peace settlement that ended hostilities (168399) between the Ottoman Empire and the Holy …
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BYZANTINE EMPIRE — the eastern half of the Roman Empire, which survived for a thousand years after the western half had crumbled into …
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AZERBAIJAN — also spelled Azerbaidzhan, officially Azerbaijani Republic, Azerbaijani Azrbayjan Respublikasi, country of eastern Transcaucasia. Occupying an area that fringes the southern …
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ATATRK, KEMAL — ((Turkish: Kemal, Father of Turks), ) born 1881, Salonika [now Thessalonki], Greece died Nov. 10, 1938, Istanbul, Turkey original name …
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ANATOLIA — Turkish Anadolu, also called Asia Minor, the peninsula of land that today constitutes the Asiatic portion of Turkey. Because of …
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