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Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article focuses on Nezihe Muhiddin, a pioneering figure in Turkish–Ottoman first‐wave feminism, who sought to secure women's political rights by attempting to establish the Women's People Party in 1923, over a decade before women gained suffrage.
Barbara Dell’Abate Çelebi
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The Slavic-Orthodox community in Azerbaijan: the identity and social position of a once-dominant minority [PDF]
, 2016 Based on recent empirical findings and field observations, this article examines the Slavic-Orthodox community in Azerbaijan. Nowadays numbering about one and a half percent of the population, the main threat to its continuity is not persecution nor ...
De Cordier, Bruno
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Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Do national histories affect national identities? Most nations have complex and multiple pasts. Nationalist historians can smooth over discontinuities by either merging them into an unbroken national narrative or by skipping over pasts that do not fit the story.
Peter Gries +2 more
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The Ethnic Groups Military Recruitment Data
Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Military conscription affects how countries expand political rights and fight wars, as well as their citizens' view of the state and socioeconomic outcomes. Until recently, conscription was studied in a simplified fashion, missing cases where it only applies to specific societal groups. We introduce the Ethnic Military Recruitment (EGMR) data,
Markéta Odlová, Marius Mehrl
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Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.Abstract Due to their prolonged and multicultural nature, councils functioned historically as hubs for the exchange of ideas, discourse, diplomacy and rhetoric, reflecting broader cultural trends. In the Middle Ages, no international forums were comparable to ecumenical councils, where diverse and influential groups from various regions convened to ...
Federico Tavelli
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Centralization, Decentralization, and Conflict in the Middle East and North Africa [PDF]
This paper examines broadly the intergovernmental structure in the Middle East and North Africa region, which has one of the most centralized government structures in the world. The authors address the reasons behind this centralized structure by looking
Tosun, Mehmet Serkan, Yilmaz, Serdar
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Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines the Turkish state's Village Guard system, revived in the 1980s as part of its counterinsurgency strategy against the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). While often framed as a defensive militia, the Village Guards became central to the state's exceptional governance in Kurdistan, both facilitating military control and ...
Francis O'Connor +3 more
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Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The vibrant British Alevi community has settled in London and other parts of the UK since the late 1980s, constituting the largest population of Kurdish Alevis outside of Turkey. Their religion is Alevism, but they are often mistakenly identified as Turkish and Muslim, contributing to their invisibility in this country.
Umit Cetin, Celia Jenkins
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Studies in Ancient Art and CivilizationIn the 19th century, the number of European travelers visiting the Anatolian Peninsula and Constantinople was on the increase. The interest they took in the Greek-Roman past of these areas resulted in intensive digging of the ancient sites and led to ...
Dominika Dziewczopolska
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Financial stability, monetary autonomy and fiscal interference: Bulgaria in search of its way, 1879-1913 [PDF]
The Bulgarian monetary system was established, immediately after independence. Having experienced it already under Ottoman rule, newly independent Bulgaria adopted the bimetallic standard.
Kalina Dimitrova, Luca Fantacci
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