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K (Kitchener, Herbert - Kyra, Esther Ḥandali, Esther Kira)

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Kitchener, Herbert, Sudan kitfiyya (epaulettes), Clothing, Jewelry and Make-upKitzin, Plovdiv (Filibe)Kıymaz, Ya’akov, Benaroya, AlbertKizilay (Red Crescent, Turkey), Or Ahayim Hospital, IstanbulKlar, Benjamin, Megillat AḥimaʿaṣKleemann, Ulrich, Ülkümen, SelahattinKleinstein, Rami, Rita klezmer music, Music Kli Maḥaziq Berakha (A Vessel Containing Blessing, Israel Najara), Najara, Israel ben MosesKligman, Mark, Maqām (musical genre)Knafo, Isaac, D, Francophone Maghrebi Jewish LiteratureKnafo Setton, Ruth, Knafo Setton, RuthKnesset (Israeli parliament)…

Ottoman Empire

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Author(s): Efrat E. Aviv | Leah Bornstein-Makovetsky | D Gershon Lewental | Avigdor Levy
1.  From 1300 to 1492 BackgroundThe Ottoman Empire (Ott. Tur. Devlet-i Âliye-yi Osmâniyye; Tur. Osmanlı İmparatorluğu; Ar. al-Dawla al-ʿUthmānīyya) emerged from a group of Turkic principalities in western Anatolia. The conventional date for the foundation of the Ottoman state is 1299, when one Osman (r. 1299–1324), the son of Ertuğrul, made the town of Söğüt his capital and embarked on a series of raids against neighboring villages and towns. In 1302, the Ottomans faced and defeated the Byzantines for the first time in the Battle of Nicaea, whence Osman’s forces moved on to capture most…