Word: suleimane
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...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...
...even before Suleiman's long reign (1520-66) was ended, the Turk had a taste of the maladies (corruption, harem government) that were to make him one day the Sick Man of Europe. Suleiman, contends Lamb, is not to be blamed for the subsequent decline of his people; history forced him into the role of a bureaucratizer, a Turkish Diocletian, and he filled it ably. He showed mercy to his enemies, and was remarkably faithful to his wife. He was, in fact, a quite speakable fellow...