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12 hours ago · The Regency of Algiers was a largely independent tributary state of the Ottoman Empire that existed between 1516 and 1830. Founded by the corsair brothers Aruj and Khayr ad-Din Barbarossa, the Regency was an important pirate base, notorious for its Barbary corsairs who were involved in numerous armed conflicts with the European powers. Algiers ...
12 hours ago · 1985 (9th Session) Hagia Sophia ( lit. ' Holy Wisdom '; Turkish: Ayasofya; Greek: Ἁγία Σοφία, romanized : Hagía Sofía; Latin: Sancta Sapientia ), officially the Hagia Sophia Grand Mosque (Turkish: Ayasofya-i Kebir Cami-i Şerifi ), [3] is a mosque and former church serving as a major cultural and historical site in Istanbul, Turkey.
12 hours ago · Josephus wrote that that Achaemenid king Cambyses II conquered the capital of Aethiopia and changed its name from "Saba" to "Meroe". Josephus also stated the Queen of Sheba came from this region and was queen of both Egypt and Ethiopia. This suggests that a belief in a connection between Sheba and Kush was already in place by the 1st century AD.
