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Supertoughfish

@supertoughfish

Freelance journalist | Contemporary historian

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@supertoughfish Aug 21, 2017, 2:33 PM UTC

Independence of Cyprus

On June 4, 1878, Britain concluded a treaty with the Ottoman sultan Abdul Hamid II, officially known as a Convention of Defensive Alliance. In this treaty Abdul Hamid agreed to the loan of Cyprus to…

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@supertoughfish Aug 7, 2017, 2:15 PM UTC

The Balkan States

Since 1991 the region of the Balkans has been a place of dynamic change. The region (excluding Greece) has been divided into two subregions: the Western Balkans, consisting of Albania and the entitie…

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@supertoughfish Jul 25, 2017, 12:39 PM UTC

Kuwait

The State of Kuwait is one of the Gulf States, located at the head of the Persian Gulf, with Iraq to its north and east and Saudi Arabia to its south. Iran is located directly across the Gulf waters.…

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@supertoughfish Jul 25, 2017, 12:23 PM UTC

Iran

The Islamic Republic of Iran was established in April 1979 after the revolution overthrew the monarchy of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, and religious clerics assumed political control. Years of turbule…

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@supertoughfish Jul 16, 2017, 10:18 AM UTC

Armenia and Azerbaijan

The Republic of Armenia and the Azerbaijan Republic were constituent members of the Soviet Union until its collapse in 1991 when the former became the Republic of Armenia and the latter the Azerbaija…

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@supertoughfish Jul 14, 2017, 2:32 PM UTC

The Kurds

Picture courtesy of Jeffrey Pentel (Reuters) The Kurds were most likely an Indo-European people who migrated from Central Asia to Asia Minor and northern Mesopotamian regions, living among Assyrian a…

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@supertoughfish Jul 10, 2017, 2:42 PM UTC

Turkey

Present-day Turkey lies in southeastern Europe and southwestern Asia and shares borders with Greece, Bulgaria, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, Iraq, and Syria. It is made up of 780,580 square kil…

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@supertoughfish Jul 10, 2017, 2:13 PM UTC

United Arab Republic

The dream of an Arab-Muslim state stretching across the Middle East has never been realized, despite British promises to help establish one, which were broken with the Sykes-Picot Agreement. But the…

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@supertoughfish Jul 5, 2017, 2:18 PM UTC

Yemen

The Arab Republic of Yemen is located on the southern part of the Arabian Peninsula, sharing borders with Saudi Arabia and Oman. Three-quarters of its population in 2004 - at the last avaliable censu…

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@supertoughfish Jun 27, 2017, 2:30 PM UTC

Saudi Arabia (no tourists allowed)

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is the largest Arab country on the Arabian Peninsula. Bordering Jordan, Iraq, Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Oman, and Yemen, Saudi Arabia has played an…

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