Word: osmanli
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Five years ago His fun-loving Highness Sarikin Katsina Alhajk Osman Nagogo breezed off to London with his father, the elderly Emir of Katsina, to play polo, back race horses and greyhounds. Last month friendly, easygoing Nagogo, now Emir himself and ruler of a million Nigerian Mohammedans, was called abroad on more serious business. Thousands of uniformed West Africans, fighting the war in Southeast Asia, wanted to gladden their hearts and rejoice their eyes with the sight of their rich and powerful leader...
...British Government in London watched anxiously. But the British breathed easier when Prime Minister Nahas Pasha appointed Sir Amin Osman Pasha as a liaison officer between the British and Egyptian Governments. Sir Amin had worked smoothly with the British in carrying compromise proposals to Haj Amin El-Husseini, fugitive Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, in the midst of the Arab-Jewish agitation over Palestine in 1939. The British were confident Sir Amin would bring reassurances such as TIME has received* that Egypt's young King Farouk was firmly pro-Ally...
...Osman's Legacy. Turkey's amazing his tory began in 1227, when a tribe which had been driven out of Central Asia by the Mongols settled in Asia Minor near Angora (Ankara). Osman, the son of the tribal leader, organized scattered groups in Asia Minor into a fighting unit, laid the foundations of the Empire which was called Ottoman after him. The hoofs of the fast-moving Osmanli cavalry first sounded on the European shores of the Dardanelles in 1354. In 1453, under Mohammed the Conqueror, the Osmanlis took Constantinople and overran the Bal kans. Selim the Grim...