A King, an Unfinished Business, and the Teutonic Custom
Once upon a time there was a prince. What he liked above all things were…
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A Boy’s Own Summer at Erzurum
Having stepped aside for Kutuzov’s excursion from our survey of the Russo-Turkish wars — from…
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La La… Pasha
Since we are on the subject of the Ottomans in Erzurum, it would be remiss…
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1453 Overture
Everyone remembers two of these. The third is the one worth knowing. Tchaikovsky’s has cannon…
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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 Straw That Learned to Write
There was in Proto-Indo-European a word *ḱolh₂mos, “straw, stalk.” From it descend Latin culmus, German…
