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Image 1 — Greeks paid about 50% less tax under the Ottoman Empire than they did under the Byzantine Empire. The Byzantines adopted the Ottoman tax system to ensure that the Christian peasants would not rebel in parts of Macedonia after briefly capturing the region from the Ottomans.
Image 2 — Greeks paid about 50% less tax under the Ottoman Empire than they did under the Byzantine Empire. The Byzantines adopted the Ottoman tax system to ensure that the Christian peasants would not rebel in parts of Macedonia after briefly capturing the region from the Ottomans.
Image 3 — Greeks paid about 50% less tax under the Ottoman Empire than they did under the Byzantine Empire. The Byzantines adopted the Ottoman tax system to ensure that the Christian peasants would not rebel in parts of Macedonia after briefly capturing the region from the Ottomans.
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Greeks paid about 50% less tax under the Ottoman Empire than they did under the Byzantine Empire. The Byzantines adopted the Ottoman tax system to ensure that the Christian peasants would not rebel in parts of Macedonia after briefly capturing the region from the Ottomans.

u/Daokadi — 5 days ago
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Russian refugees of the Bolshevik revolution selling their wares in Eminönü, İstanbul

u/qernanded — 5 days ago
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Bulgaristan köyünde Osmanlı yazısı

Esenlikler,

Bu iki taşı Bulgaristanda bir köyün camisinde gördüm. Camii ye çıkan eski merdivenlerin en üstünde bulunuyor ve birbirlerine bakıyorlar. Sizce ne yazıyorlar?

u/HistoricalCarsFan — 5 days ago
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Cretan Turks Muslim survivors from Sarakina massacre in Crete 1897

1 Wounded mother with two children and two other wounded girls

2 The government building in Vamos burnt after evacuation of Ottomans.

3 A victim of Sarakina massacre wounded in the leg by bullet.

4 A mother of three who died from bullet wounds she was receiving treatment

5 A mother and her two wounded daughters

6 Surviving wounded family

The photos were taken in the Chania hospital in Crete the victims are from the Sarakina massacre during January 1897. A group of 159-200 Cretan Turks Muslims from Sarakina village were evacuated by Christians but were killed on the route. Around 44 survived of who 25 wounded 4 women were taken and converted to Christianity.

British consul said that in total 104 people were killed

20 men 23 women 61 children

u/Weird-Acanthaceae532 — 7 days ago
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Selma Rıza: İlk Türk kadın gazeteci, İttihat ve Terakki Cemiyeti'nin tek kadın üyesi, Hilal-i Ahmer Cemiyeti genel sekreteri ve yazarı. (5 Şubat 1872 - 5 Ekim 1931)

u/el_turco — 6 days ago
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You are a diplomat sent to the Paris Peace Conference, assigned to "fix" the Caucasus. How do you draw the fairest borders possible to prevent future wars?

u/qernanded — 13 days ago