The Principality Nobody Was Watching
An empire that began by being beneath notice Anatolia had been under Mongol authority for…
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The Word That Was Demoted
In the thirteenth century the Mongol Empire of Genghis Khan stretched from the South China…
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The Straw That Learned to Write
There was in Proto-Indo-European a word *ḱolh₂mos, “straw, stalk.” From it descend Latin culmus, German…
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Abdallah, the Carpet, and the Cross
Two centuries back, then. In the eighth century the frontier town of Erzurum—Theodosiopolis, as it…
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A Madrasa Named After a Ruby
Rather a long one today, I am afraid, but it is all so interesting. Do…
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Pontificating on a Mountain Pass
Today we found ourselves in the Pontic Mountains—the ones above the Black Sea, which the…
