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The Armenian Convent of Holy Archangels in Jerusalem and its Epigraphic Heritage [PDF]

Cercetări Arheologice
The Armenian monasteries and churches in Jerusalem are rich in pilgrims’ inscriptions and graffiti, and the collection and publication of these inscriptions form the primary focus of my research, which began in 2019 as part of the project ‘The Armenian ...
Khachik Harutyunyan
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Obligation, Exemption and Remission: The Multi‐Layered Functioning of the Poll Tax (Cizye) in Ottoman Governance during the Long Eighteenth Century

History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the poll tax (Ottoman Turkish cizye; Arabic jizya) levied on non‐Muslim subjects of the Ottoman Empire, not as a fixed, one‐dimensional tax item within the Ottoman fiscal system but as a multi‐layered administrative instrument organized around obligation, exemption and remission.
ÖZLEM BAŞARIR
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Being Black at Holy Cross (1974) [PDF]

, 1974
This publication by Holy Cross Black students for prospective Black students is a joint project of the Black Student Union and the Office of Admissions.
College of the Holy Cross
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Encounters of a Third Kind: Mark Twain, William C. Prime and Protestant American Holy Land Narratives

Quest. Issues in Contemporary Jewish History, 2013
William C. Prime’s Tent Life in the Holy Land (1857) is mostly remembered now as the target of parody in The Innocents Abroad (1869), where, eager to promote his own “honest” and “impartial” account of Palestine, Mark Twain mocked the maudlin style of ...
Milette Shamir
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The Momentum of ‘Developed’: Bodies of Water, Aging Bodies and Malta's Interventions at the UN

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Histories of major powers continue to shape how many scholars conceptualize internationalism. By focusing on Malta's interventions at the UN challenges, this article challenges such narrative. In particular, it examines Arvid Pardo's 1967 petition that the seabed be reconceived and protected as the ‘common heritage of mankind’ and Vincent ...
Brianne Wesolowski
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Images, Views and Landscapes of the Holy Land. Catholic and Protestant Travels to Ottoman Palestine during the 19th Century

Quest. Issues in Contemporary Jewish History, 2013
Rich in historical details and artistic illustrations of the Near East and the Holy Land, the selected accounts of journeys and pilgrimages written by European and American Christians (Catholic and Protestant) provide numerous and broad sets of views ...
Paolo Maggiolini
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Organization and activities of the Imperial Orthodox Palestine Society in the context of the church brotherhood movement [PDF]

Вестник Свято-Филаретовского института
The article analyzes the activities of the Imperial Orthodox Palestine Society (IOPS) in the context of the church-social movement of the 1880s — early 1900s. The undertakings of the initiator of the establishment of the Society, V. N.
Polunov A. Yu.
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Accidental Holy Land: The Communist Revolution in Northwest China

Journal of Asian Studies, 2022
H. Chambers
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Seizing the Regno: Relics and the Politics of Aragonese Expansion in the Fifteenth‐Century Mediterranean

History, EarlyView.
Abstract On 2 June 1442, Alfonso V of Aragon seized the throne of Naples after twenty years of violence, rivalry and warfare between the houses of Anjou and Trastámara over control of the Italian Regno. Over the span of his sixteen‐year reign, Alfonso used Naples as a tool to build his reputation as a new Roman and Imperial ruler in the Italian south ...
Jessica L. Minieri
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Re(sounding) holy wells [PDF]

, 2019
(Re)sounding holy wells was an artistic and cultural heritage project to imaginatively explore holy wells in Cork through workshops, audio recordings, and oral histories.(Re)sounding holy wells was an artistic and cultural heritage project led by Vicky ...
Scriven, Richard, Langan, Vicky
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