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Geoarchaeology, Volume 40, Issue 5, September/October 2025.ABSTRACT The Sadd al‐Bint is one of the largest known ancient dams in Saudi Arabia, and yet, its construction date, function and collapse remained uncertain. This study presents the first numerical chronology for the dam, integrating radiocarbon dating, Bayesian modelling, geomorphological analysis and hydrological modelling to reconstruct its history.
Bruno Depreux +13 more
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More Than a Game: Football and Ethnic Contestation in Contemporary Iran
Digest of Middle East Studies, Volume 34, Issue 4, Fall 2025.ABSTRACT This study examines a particular form of ethnic resentment, namely the use of sport as a medium for expressing repressed ethnic feelings. It focuses on how a sports club, going beyond mere entertainment and athletics, becomes a center for disseminating ethnic sentiments. Specifically, it explores the role of Tractor, a football club founded in
Ehsan Kashfi
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Provincialising Early Feminism: A View from the Middle East
Gender &History, Volume 37, Issue 2, Page 591-605, July 2025.Abstract ‘Provincializing Europe’, derived from Dipesh Chakrabarty's work of that name, argued that an imagined ‘Europe’ was a founding myth for modernity. While not mentioning feminism, this analysis is a valuable starting point for tracing the path of the term ‘féminism’ from France to Britain to the Ottoman Empire and from the USA to the Arab world –
Ruth Roded
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The Aqueducts and Water Supply of Ancient Jerusalem
Groundwater, Volume 63, Issue 4, Page 649-660, July/August 2025.Abstract Jerusalem, a city held sacred by three of the world's great religions, is located in a semi‐arid climate, and its occupation through the millennia has only been made possible by the construction of an extensive and ingenious water supply infrastructure. The settlement of Jerusalem was first made possible by water from the Gihon Spring.
David Deming
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Geoscience Data Journal, Volume 12, Issue 2, April 2025.This dataset presents, for the first time, long‐term monthly rainfall data (1846–1917) collected from multiple stations during the late Ottoman Empire, compiled from the personal efforts of foreign scientists, engineers and officials in Constantinople (Istanbul, Türkiye). ABSTRACT This study focuses on rescuing and analysing historical monthly rainfall
Ferhat Yilmaz +2 more
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The global sanitary revolution in historical perspective
Journal of Economic Surveys, Volume 39, Issue 2, Page 567-598, April 2025.Abstract This survey sheds light on the causes and consequences of the global sanitary revolution that resulted in the spread of waterworks and sewerage projects since the middle of the 19th century, by drawing on research from the fields of economic history, economics, and history. I begin with a discussion of the construction of these infrastructures
Daniel Gallardo‐Albarrán
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Spatial inequality in prices and wages within a late‐developing economy: Serbia, 1863–1910
The Economic History Review, Volume 78, Issue 1, Page 207-234, February 2025.Abstract Serbia emerged as a small independent nation‐state in the economic periphery of nineteenth‐century Europe. This article leverages uniquely abundant town‐level data to examine spatial inequality in prices and wages within this late‐developing economy.
Stefan Nikolić
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Nations and Nationalism, Volume 31, Issue 1, Page 205-222, January 2025.Abstract This paper investigates geography textbooks of the 1930s in Turkey, contending that geographical knowledge played a pivotal role in shaping nationhood within a modernising state. This study's critical discourse analysis (CDA) of the early republican geography textbooks showcases how (1) Turkey's spatial formation was reimagined in 1930s; (2 ...
Hande Gür, Gül Çalışkan
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On the occasion of the centennial of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1923: Nicolae C. Paulescu-between scientific creativity and political fanatism. [PDF]
Acta Diabetol, 2023 de Leiva-Hidalgo A, de Leiva-Pérez A.
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Traditional Healing in Treatment of Diseasses in the Past in Bosnia and Herzegovina. [PDF]
Mater Sociomed, 2022 Masic I +4 more
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