Word: suleiman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Saladin, the Hospitallers looked for a new outlet for their energies. They found it as corsairs against the Moslem empire. As the Knights of Rhodes, an island they captured in 1309, they spent two centuries fighting Turkish pirates and raiding Turkish towns. Driven out of Rhodes at last by Suleiman II, they were granted the sovereignty of Malta by the Emperor Charles V, in exchange for a token payment of a falcon a year. Promptly they resumed their sea-raiding as the Knights of Malta. And lords of Malta they remained until 1798, when their own grand master treacherously handed...
...Moslems reached their high-water mark in the West when Charles Martel beat them at Tours, 135 miles south west of Paris. For centuries more they held Spain, Portugal, Sicily. In 1529 Suleiman the Magnificent was at the gates of Vienna...
Strike Wave. In southern Iran the Communists, using loudspeakers, incited 12,000 of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Co.'s 80,000 workers into a strike. In Masjid-i-Suleiman strikers asked for a pay rise; at Agha Jari, they wanted control of the A.I.O.C. Transport system. The Reds were concerned only with spreading unrest...
...Suleiman the Magnificent, by Harold Lamb. A highly readable reconstruction of the great sultan's life; by a popular historian who thinks the West has usually rated Suleiman too low (TIME, March...
...Suleiman the Magnificent, by Harold Lamb. A highly readable reconstruction of the great sultan's life; by a popular historian who thinks the West has usually rated Suleiman too low (TIME, March...