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The Aqueducts and Water Supply of Ancient Jerusalem

open access: yesGroundwater, 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
wiley   +1 more source

Rainy Ottoman Days: Rescuing and Analysing Rainfall Data (1846–1917) in Constantinople (Istanbul, Türkiye)

open access: yesGeoscience 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
wiley   +1 more source

Turkey 's Hasty Constitutional Amendment Devoid of Rational Basis: From a Political Crisis to a Governmental System Change

open access: yes, 2010
Introduction Governmental systems are one of the significant topics of constitutional law literature and comprehensive studies have been carried out on this issue.
Peri Uran
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The global sanitary revolution in historical perspective

open access: yesJournal 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
wiley   +1 more source

Spatial inequality in prices and wages within a late‐developing economy: Serbia, 1863–1910

open access: yesThe 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
wiley   +1 more source

Crafting a national identity: The role of geography textbooks in 1930s Turkey's nation‐building project

open access: yesNations 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
wiley   +1 more source

Traditional Healing in Treatment of Diseasses in the Past in Bosnia and Herzegovina. [PDF]

open access: yesMater Sociomed, 2022
Masic I   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

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