Word: aziz
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Dates: during 1923-1923
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...authorities that "perpetual treaty" is not regarded as a meaningless phrase in Poland. The reason for this statement is that Turkey, of all the nations of Europe, refused to acknowledge the annihilation of Poland at the time of the Third Partition (1795) and until the deposition of Sultan Abdul Aziz (1876) the Polish Ambassador was always invited to the various ceremonies of the Turkish Court. During the 123 years in which the Polish State was nonexistent, Turkey was a warm friend of the Poles, many of whom settled in European Turkey and fought at different times for the Star...
...Marechal Lyautey has for many years been identified with Morocco. From 1901 (when the then General Lyautey was instructed by the French Government to assist Sultan Abdul Aziz in extending his territories toward the South) to the present day, the name Lyautey has been interwoven in the history of France in the Shereefian Empire. He was appointed Resident General on April 28, 1912 (the month after the Fez Treaty was signed, establishing the French Protectorate over Morocco) and served in that capacity until December 13, 1916, when he returned to France to take command of a unit on the Western...