Word: jiftlik
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cities of Mecca and Medina - but he was better known during his reign (1876-1909) as Abdul the Damned. He squatted within a triple-walled palace at Constantinople, amassed women (four wives, 233 concubines) and wealth ($112,000,000 in jewels, millions more in oilfields and other jiftlik, or crown lands). In 1920, after he and his sick empire had died, his numerous heirs began one of the most fantastic inheritance suits of all time...
...states carved out of Abdul's empire had taken over his jiftlik as part of the public domain. His heirs contended that this was illegal seizure of private property...
...businessmen have put up about $10,000,000 to push a $200,000,000 claim. If Palestine loses, the jiftlik will be divided 40% for the investors, 60% for the progeny of Abdul the Damned...
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