Since the emergence of the post-1943 state and after the destruction of the Ottoman Caliphate, national policy has been determined largely by a relatively restricted group of traditional regional and sectarian leaders.

Since much of that area had been only recently conquered by Russia from the Ottoman Empire, and a large number of Orthodox Greek settlers had been invited to settle in the region, the Imperial Government picked a renowned Greek scholar, Eugenios Voulgaris to preside over the new diocese.

Since, at that time, Australia was preparing to attack the Ottoman Empire, those people were first speculated to be Turkish, but later identified as being from British colony of India ( modern day Pakistan ).

Since Kapikulu Sipahis were a cavalry regiment it was well known within the Ottoman military circles that they considered themselves a superior stock of soldiers than Janissaries, who were sons of Christian peasants from the Balkans ( Rumelia ), and were basically slaves bounded by various laws of the devşirme.

Since the Mamluks had both wealth and power, the overall moderate proportions of Mamluk architecture — compared to Timurid or classical Ottoman styles — is due to the individual decisions of patrons who preferred to sponsor multiple projects.

Since 1739, the town was again under Ottoman control.

Since the 12th century, the city has successively belonged to the Sultans of Aleppo ( Ayyubids ), Sultanate of Rum, the Mongols, the Mameluks, the Akkoyunlu, the Safavids and from 1517 to 1918 to the Ottoman Empire.

Since the treaty of 1589-90 Abbas had been regarded as almost an Ottoman vassal.

Since Sunni Islam was the religion of Iran's main rival, the Ottoman Empire, Abbas often treated Sunnis living in western border provinces harshly.

Since the crescent moon had been adopted as the dynastic ( and ultimately national ) emblem of the Ottoman sultans, who were the new sovereigns of Rum, the Safavids of Iran, needing to have a dynastic and national emblem of their own, chose the Lion and Sun motif.

Since appearing on the Ottoman flag, they were widely adopted by Muslim countries, and have become known as symbols of Islam, when in fact, they may be cultural symbols.

Since 1570, the region was divided between the Habsburg Monarchy and vassal Ottoman Principality of Transylvania.

Since 1529 it was intermittently part of Ottoman Empire, ruled by a Turkish bey ( governor ) subordinate to the dey of Algiers.

Since the Ottoman army possessed overwhelming numerical superiority, Tahmasp avoided pitched battle with them and resorted to alternative tactics.

Since the second half of the 19th century every year in August is held Nevrokop Fair, which flocked merchants from the Ottoman Empire, Austria-Hungary, France and other countries.

Since the author is buttering up both the Aq Qoyunlu and Ottoman rulers, it has been suggested that the composition belongs to someone living between the Aq Qoyunlu and Ottoman Empire.

Since then, Prekmurje was mostly under administration of the Habsburg Monarchy, with brief periods of Ottoman administration.

Since 1645, Venice and the Ottoman Empire had been at war over the possession of the island of Crete.

Firearms have been in use since the beginning of the dynasty, and field armies in battle formation have found them convenient and useful to carry along ... Since muskets have been transmitted to China, these weapons have lost their effectiveness ... In battle formation, aside from various cannon such as the " three generals ," the breach loading swivel gun, and the " hundred-league thunder ," nothing has more range or power than the Ottoman musket.

Since very little is actually known about his life, the book fills in the historical episodes, placing Leo in the company of many of the key historical figures of his time, including three popes, ( Leo X, Adrian VI, and Pope Clement VII ), two Ottoman emperors ( Selim I and Suleiman the Magnificent ), with appearances by Boabdil ( the last Moorish king of Granada ), Askia Mohammad I of the Songhai Empire, Ferdinand of Spain, and Francis I of France, as well as the artist Raphael and other key political and cultural figures of the period.

Since Tumenishta had served as the main base for Skanderbeg's forays into the Ottoman camp at the Siege of Krujë ( 1450 ), Isak bey and Hamza prepared to annihilate any resistance they would find there.

Since 1526, the town was part of the Ottoman Empire.

Since the 19th century, Teşvikiye has been home to many writers ( including journalist Abdi Ipekçi, who was assassinated here in 1979 ), politicians and a great number of prominent business families and still holds a well-established middle-class, including some descendants of Levantine and Jewish families that built many of the beautiful stone apartment buildings of Teşvikiye in the Ottoman period.

Since the reign of Septimius Severus, sun worship had increased throughout the Empire.

Since Lutheran Sweden preferred Osnabrück as a conference venue, its peace negotiations with the Empire, including the allies of both sides, took place in Osnabrück.

Since the Empire lacked any formal means of nominating a successor, succession usually involved the death of competing princes in order to avert civil unrest and rebellions.

Since Otto III had intentions to renew the Empire based on a federal concept he called " Renovatio Imperii Romanorum ", and within that federal framework, Polish and Hungarian duchies were to be upgraded to eastern federati of the empire it was towards this end that the Emperor placed his Imperial crown on Bolesław I's brow and invested him with the titles frater et cooperator Imperii (" Brother and Partner of the Empire ") and populi Romani amicus et socius.

Since the 14th century the Deccan ( Southern Peninsular region of India ) was divided into two entities: on the one side stood the Muslim Bahmani Sultanate and on the other stood the Hindu kings rallied around the Vijayanagara Empire.

" Since the Pusher Met My Cousin " and " That Red-Headed Venusburg Gal " are both referred to, but no lyrics are provided, in Heinlein's " Logic of Empire ".

Since the fall of the Roman Empire, the Frankish kings had always shown a certain deference to the Byzantine Emperor, but Theudebert rejected his status as an inferior leader: for example, he broke imperial custom by minting gold coins containing his own image.

Since Harthacnut was already on the Danish throne, this reunited the North Sea Empire.

Since the Roman Empire, broccoli has been considered a uniquely valuable food among Italians.

Since the premiere of Boardwalk Empire, interest in the Roaring Twenties-era Atlantic City has grown.

Since the Middle Ages, the semi-Salic principle was prevalent for the inheritance of feudal land in the Holy Roman Empire: inheritance was allowed through females when the male line expired.

According to Encyclopædia Britannica, " the term is usually applied to attacks on Jews in the Russian Empire in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the first extensive pogroms followed the assassination of Tsar Alexander II in 1881 ," and the Wiley-Blackwell Dictionary of Modern European History Since 1789 states that pogroms " were antisemitic disturbances that periodically occurred within the tsarist empire.

Since the death of Baldwin's uncle, Emperor Henry of Flanders in 1216, the Latin Empire had declined and the Byzantine ( Nicene ) power advanced ; and the hopes that John of Brienne might restore it were disappointed.

Since the Peace of Augsburg, the Holy Roman Empire had been delicately balanced between Catholic, Lutheran, and Calvinist principalities ( although Calvinism was not recognised in the Peace of Augsburg ).

Since 1949, two monarchs of the House of Windsor, George VI and Elizabeth II, have also been Head of the Commonwealth of Nations, comprising most ( but not all ) parts of the former British Empire and some states that were never part of it.

Since the 7th century, Tuyuhun Kingdom was attacked by both the Tibetan Empire and Tang Dynasty as both of them sought control over trade routes.

Since Prussia was by far the largest state in the German Empire, its regulations also influenced spelling elsewhere.

Since 2010, he has starred in the critically acclaimed series Boardwalk Empire, which earned him two Screen Actors Guild Awards, a Golden Globe, and two nominations for an Emmy Award.

* Since Finland was part of the Russian Empire, the Finnish team were expected to march under the Russian rather than Finnish flag, so many chose to march without a flag at all.

Since the 9th century, Upper Silesia has been part of ( chronologically ) Greater Moravia, the Duchy of Bohemia, the Piast Kingdom of Poland, again of the Lands of the Bohemian Crown and the Holy Roman Empire, as well as of the Habsburg Monarchy from 1526.

Since the Peace of Augsburg 1555 until the end of World War I and the collapse of the German Empire, some Protestant churches were state churches.