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...handover of territory, amounting to just over 6 percent of the West Bank, marks the final Israeli withdrawals before a final peace treaty is completed, and Yasser Arafat's negotiators have long looked to Abu Dis - which was included in Jerusalem's boundaries when the city was under Ottoman rule, but excluded from later municipal maps - as a solution to the two sides' rival claims on Jerusalem as their capital. The Palestinian Authority would set up its administration in Abu Dis, which it would call Jerusalem ("Al Quds," actually, the city's Arabic name...
...Mongolia from Dadu (today's Beijing), but related Mongol khanates in central Asia and Russia are virtually independent if not hostile; and the once subservient (and Buddhist) Il-Khans of Persia have converted to Islam. Meanwhile, drawn by the decay of Byzantium, Osman and his Turks germinate the Ottoman Empire in Anatolia...
Center of the World Constantinople: Symbol of Ottoman wealth and military power. Rivals: Beijing, capital of Ming China; Florence, epicenter of the Renaissance...
Safra, listed in Forbes magazine as the world's 199th richest person, was scion of a banking family that built its first fortune financing the Ottoman Empire caravan trade. Safra made his mark adhering to the old-fashioned banking-business model of securing deposits and then investing them in safe, modest-yielding assets. The secretive billionaire had long been known as a generous contributor to Jewish causes around the world. Last week he was on the verge of wrapping up his life's work, the sale of Republic National and Safra Republic holdings to HSBC Holdings, Britain's largest bank...
...There should not be allowed to develop a conflict of interest between say, Greek and Turkish studies...I get on extremely well with my colleagues in Ottoman and Turkish studies. I don't see why it should be anything other than that way," she says...