Word: muslim
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...proclaimed a quasi-independent republic in ! most of the rest. Sarajevo, if it should be able to hold out, looks increasingly like a Balkan West Berlin: cut off from any countryside, capital of Nowheresville. Outside city limits, only a few slivers of territory remain under the control of the Muslim Slavs who constitute 41% of Bosnia's population...
...they ever go into effect, cease-fires in what was once Yugoslavia tend to be a passing fad; roughly 30 have come and gone since the civil wars began in June 1991. Nonetheless, leaders of the Serb, Croat and Muslim communities of Bosnia-Herzegovina, conferring in London through intermediaries (they refused to talk face-to-face) arranged one more truce, which was supposed to begin this Sunday evening. Even on the off chance that it holds, will there be enough of Bosnia left to call a country? The answer probably...
...brilliant culture of Spain during the Muslim conquest...
...Arabs and Berbers under the command of Musa ibn Nusayr crossed the sea and smashed through the patchy Visigothic resistance; within 50 years most of Spain, except for the pockets of Castile and Catalonia in the north, had become al-Andalus, the farthest western expansion of a vast Muslim empire run by the Abbasid dynasty from Baghdad...
...home a year ago, won a very respectable 2 million votes in the recent presidential election (to Ramos' 5.3 million). Ramos, who is inheriting a more stable situation than Cory Aquino did six years ago, seems eager to heal old wounds. He is expected to offer amnesty to communist, Muslim and military rebels. And he is rumored to be planning to end the government's campaign to seize the Marcos billions. Last week the official charged with retrieving the "hidden wealth" recommended a compromise with Imelda to split the proceeds, if recovered, of a fortune in gold bullion said...