Word: sultanate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sultan Moulay Ismail, "The Bloodthirsty," fell to grieving over the moral and physical disintegration of his Arab soldiers. He noticed that the black slaves brought to him from distant Senegal were lion-muscled, superbly built, and as fierce fighters as those ancient Arabs from North Africa who in the 8th Century had swept across southern Spain...
From Gao the captive lines of men and maidens marched north to Marrakesh (Morocco City). Once inside the city, chains were knocked off, the Negro men were told to pick their own brides and mate with them forthwith. The great mass-mating lasted for weeks. Sultan Moulay Ismail obtained as an eventual result the most powerful army in North Africa. He benevolently gave each couple a strip of land to till and the choice of either a donkey or a camel...
Among the million-odd descendants of the mass marriage who celebrated its anniversary last week, none are more famed than the "Senegalese Black Guard," all six feet tall and black as ebony. Night and day they guard the person of Morocco's present Sultan, sparse-bearded, 19- year-old Sidi Mohammed (TIME...
Fixed in many a schoolboy's memory is the fact that 15th Century George Duke of Clarence died in a butt of malmsey (aromatic grape) wine. Sleepy-eyed Abdul Hamil II, Sultan of Turkey, died in Magnesia, not a solution but a town in Asia Minor. At the time of his death (1918), though a prisoner of the "Young Turkish" government he was worth $1,500,000,000, was generally considered Richest Man in the World. Last week the Greek government agreed to pay $50,000,000 to nine of his widows, 13 of his children. Not only...
...Sultan Abdul Hamid, called "Abdul the Damned" by phrasemaking historians, was crafty, cruel, ignorant,* yet at the beginning of the World War his personal estates included half the Province of Saloniki, holdings in the Island of Cyprus, Thessaly, Greece, Syria, Palestine and what is now the Kingdom of Irak, a goodly section of the rich tobacco lands of Macedonia (whence "Egyptian" cigarets) and about $25,000,000 in jewels. When he was deposed in 1909, all these were confiscated...