Word: sultan
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Every empire has its cycle of existence, passing from small beginnings to the zenith of power, and ending in decay and extinction. The power of Islam forms no exception to this rule. Its period of splendor was under Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent, and since that time disintegration has made rapid progress...
...steamer Cimbria, which left Hamburg for Havre and New York on the 16th inst., came into collision with the British steamer Sultan twelve miles southwest of Borkum, and sunk in fifteen minutes. Between three and four hundred lives were lost...
...futile attempt to assassinate the Sultan of Turkey was made on Sunday...
...reported that the Sultan of Turkey is mentally unbalanced...
...Turkish palace at Constantinople is reported to be practically in a state of seige. The Sultan's alarm is occasioned by threatened sedition among the troops...