During the war, the Azeri armed forces were also aided by Turkish military advisers, and Russian, Ukrainian, Chechen and Afghan mercenaries.

During the Greco-Turkish War ( 1919-1922 ) campaign ( part of the Turkish War of Independence ) Afyon and the surrounding hills were occupied by French, Italian and then Greek forces.

During Ottoman times, the Mevlevi produced a number of notable poets and musicians, including Sheikh Ghalib, Ismail Rusuhi Dede of Ankara, Esrar Dede, Halet Efendi, and Gavsi Dede, who are all buried at the Galata Mewlewī Khāna ( Turkish: Mevlevi-Hane ) in Istanbul.

During the period of the semi-autonomous province ( Mutasarrifia ) period of Mount Lebanon between 1861 and 1914, no Turkish troops were allowed to station within its boundary.

During the Ottoman period the temple was known to the Greeks as the Palace of Hadrian, while the Turks called it the Palace of Belkis, from a Turkish legend that the temple had been the residence of Solomon's wife.

During his reign as Sultan, Osman I extended the frontiers of Turkish settlement toward the edge of the Byzantine Empire.

During the Ottoman Empire's domination of the Aegean Sea, the Turkish exonym for the island was " Santurin " or " Santoron ".

During his studies, he dedicated himself to mastering English — adding this language to the Persian, Turkish, Arabic and French, languages in which he was already fluent-so that he could translate the letters of ` Abdu ' l-Bahá and serve as his secretary.

During the past decade since 2001, the Turkish lira has also gained a considerable amount of value and maintained its stability, becoming an internationally exchangeable currency once again ( in line with the inflation that dropped to single-digit figures since 2003.

During his very short stay ( six days ), Napoleon accomplished quite a of reforms, notably the creation of a new administration with a Government Commission, the creation of twelve municipalities, the setting up of a public finance administration, the abolition of all feudal rights and privileges, the abolition of slavery and the granting of freedom to all Turkish slaves ( 2000 in all ).

During the Turkish rule Kerch fell into decay and served as a slave-market.

During the Turkish army invasion of Cyprus in 1974, Turkish troops occupied northern Nicosia ( as well as the northern part of Cyprus ).

During the aftermath of this crisis, on 21 December 1963, intercommunal violence broke out between Greek and Turkish Cypriots.

During the 1990s several Cypriot Roma ( people ) ( considered Turkish Cypriots according to the constitution ) returned from the North of the island to the Turkish quarter of Limassol.

During the Ottoman rule it was called Sofya by the Turkish conquerors of Bulgaria.

During the bombardment of the fort, a cannon shot from Fort St Angelo across the Grand Harbour struck the ground close to the Turkish battery.

During the time of Turkish occupation, Serbian art was virtually non-existent, with the exception of several Serbian artists who lived in the lands ruled by the Habsburg Monarchy.

During the 16th century, Turkish naval attacks destroyed Maó, and the then capital, Ciutadella, before Turkish settlement took place on some of the island.

During the early 1900s, the city of Van had eleven Armenian schools and ten Turkish.

During his reign he was determined to halt the decline of the Byzantine military and stop Turkish incursions into the Byzantine Empire, but in 1071 he was captured and his army routed at the Battle of Manzikert.

During the 1930s he made a visit to Cairo and several visits to Ankara where ( at the invitation of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk ) he led the task of reorganizing Turkish music education and the early efforts for the establishment of Turkish State Opera and Ballet.

During the invasion by the Pagan Goth Radagaisus, Alaric remained idle in Illyria.

During his reign, Jerusalem became more closely allied with the Byzantine Empire, and the two states launched an unsuccessful invasion of Egypt.

During the first invasion, Thrace, Macedon and the Aegean Islands were added to the Persian Empire, and Eretria was duly destroyed.

During the 3rd century, under threat from a Herulian invasion, repairs were made to the Acropolis walls, and the " Beulé Gate " was constructed to restrict entrance in front of the Propylaia, thus returning the Acropolis to use as a fortress.

* 1242 – During a battle on the ice of Lake Peipus, Russian forces, led by Alexander Nevsky, rebuff an invasion attempt by the Teutonic Knights.

During the Western Allied invasion of Germany in April 1945, the airfield was seized by the United States Third Army, and used by the USAAF 354th Fighter Group which flew P-47 Thunderbolts from the aerodrome ( designated ALG R-82 ) from late April until the German capitulation on 7 May 1945.

During Charles V's invasion of Provence in 1536, Francis I of France sent the Count of Fürstenberg's 6000 Landsknechte to ravage the area in a scorched earth policy.

During the mid 1st century AD, the Zarubintsy and Lukashevka cultures came to an end in their true form, possibly due to Sarmatian invasions and perturbations of central European trade due to Caesar's invasion of Gaul ( the ' heart ' of the La Tene culture ).

During the Cold War, he was also seen as the leader who led Free China and the bulwark against a possible Communist invasion.

During the months following the Shaba invasion, Mobutu sought solutions to the military problems that had contributed to the army's dismal performance.

During a trip to Iraq in June 2011, he said that Iraq should pay back the U. S. for all the money it had spent since the invasion, when it becomes a wealthy country.

During the invasion of Poland and the Battle of France, Luftwaffe fighters — primarily the Messerschmitt Bf 109 — held air superiority, and the Luftwaffe played a major role in German victories in these campaigns.

During World War II a Japanese invasion force landed at Reo on 14 May 1942 and occupied Flores.

During the Ottoman invasion of Central Europe ( between late 14th century and circa 1700 ) Hungarian soldiers protected fortresses and launched light cavalry attacks against the Turks ( see Hungarian Hussars ).

" During this time American President Franklin D. Roosevelt also referred to the German people in this way, saying that an Allied invasion into the South of France would surely " be successful and of great assistance to Eisenhower in driving the Huns from France.

During the early morning of 22 June 1941, Adolf Hitler broke the pact by implementing Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of Soviet held territories and the Soviet Union that began the war on the Eastern Front.

During the Mongol invasion, many natives of Afghanistan fled to India where some established dynasties in Delhi.

During the second century AD, a storehouse was constructed on the site of the Pompeion, but it was destroyed during the invasion of the Heruli in 267 AD.

During Napoleon's invasion of Prussia during the War of the Fourth Coalition, the town was besieged from mid-March to July 2, 1807, by the Grande Armée and by Polish forces drawn from insurgents against Prussian rule ( a street named for the commander leading Polish soldiers is located within the present-day city ).

During the invasion, the Greek army kills or wounds 350 Turks.

During the second Persian invasion of Greece ( 480-479 BC ) Megara fought alongside the Spartans and Athenians at crucial battles such as Salamis and Plataea.

During his invasion of the Levant, Richard I of England was forced to supply his army as it was marching through a barren desert.

During The Mongol invasion of Europe, Tatars under the leadership of Kadan, experienced a major failure in March 1242 at Klis Fortress in southern Croatia.

During this period, the Empire faced challenges in defending itself against foreign invasion and occupation.

During an invasion the Avars swept off the five sons of this warrior into Pannonia, but one, his namesake, returned to Italy and restored the ruined fortunes of his house.