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This project seeks to collect all of the Jewish families from the Island of Rhodes. Introductory information by Leon Taranto. See his complete article on Avotaynu 2009: "From the Ottoman Turkish conquest of Rhodes in 1522 until the Holocaust, a vibrant Judeo-Spanish community flourished on this Mediterranean isle. In antiquity, a Romaniote Jewish community lived there. By the 1700s, Rhodes ...
The Crimean War (October 1853 – February 1856) Image Right - Russo-French skirmish during the Crimean War By Anonymous plate - Public Domain, Wiki Commons The object of this project is to assemble Geni Profiles of people who were involved in the Crimean wars and share stories about them. The Crimean War was a conflict between the Russian Empire and an alliance of the French Empir...
Ottoman - grand veziers / Veliki veziri List of Ottoman grand viziers Za sada samo dodajem one koji su bili Slavenskog porijekla Stjepan / Ahmed paša Hercegović Rustem paša Opuković Mehmed paša Sokolović Mahmud paša Andelović Selih paša Belbez Korisni izvori / Useful sources: Znameniti Hrvati Bošnjaci i Hercegovci u Turskoj Carevini / Safvet-beg Bašagić.
The sultans of the Ottoman Empire (Turkish: Osmanlı padişahları), made up solely of the members of the Ottoman dynasty (House of Osman), ruled over the transcontinental empire from its inception in 1299 to its dissolution in 1922. At its height, the Ottoman Empire spanned from Hungary in the north to Somalia in the south, and from Algeria in the west to Iran in the east. Administered at first f...
ISABEGOVIĆ FAMILY (Isajbegović, the Turkish Isabegzade) Founding a family Isabegović is an Ottoman branch of an old Bosnian aristocratic family from the Kosača tribe.[1] The family founder was Ottoman governor and soldier Ishak beg Hranić in the 14th century but the family name is named after his son Isa-beg Ishaković Hranić and it is Isabegović. So, after him, all members of family Isab...
April Uprising (Bulgarian: Априлско въстание) was an insurrection organised by the Bulgarians in the Ottoman Empire from April to May 1876, which indirectly resulted in the re-establishment of Bulgaria as an autonomous nation in 1878. About 1,000 Muslims were killed during the uprising, leading the regular Ottoman Army and irregular bashi-bazouk units to brutally crush the rebels, leading to a ...