* Turks and Caicos Islands ( UK )

The Bahamas and Turks and Caicos Islands lie to the north.

The Turks and Caicos Islands lie southeast of Mayaguana in the Bahamas island chain and north of the island of Hispaniola.

A report by the Turks and Caicos Islands Department of Economic Planning and Statistics gives the same numbers as the Encyclopædia Britannica though its definitions are less clear .</ ref > The islands are geographically contiguous to the Bahamas, but are politically a separate entity.

In August 2009, the United Kingdom suspended the Turks and Caicos ' self-government after allegations of ministerial corruption.

The Turks and Caicos Islands are named after the Turk's-cap cactus ( Melocactus communis ), and the Lucayan term " caya hico ", meaning string of islands.

Around 1200 the Turks and Caicos Islands were resettled by Classical Taínos from Hispaniola.

Soon after they arrived in the islands in 1492, or 1512, the Spanish began capturing the Taínos of the Turks and Caicos Islands and the Lucayans as slaves ( technically, as workers in the encomienda system ) to replace the largely depleted native population of Hispaniola.

The southern Bahama Islands, including the Turks and Caicos Islands, were completely depopulated by about 1513, and remained so until the 17th century.

In 1799, both the Turks and the Caicos island groups were annexed by Britain as part of the Bahamas.

In 1848, the Turks and Caicos were declared a separate colony under a council president.

In 1917, Canadian Prime Minister Robert Borden suggested that the Turks and Caicos join Canada, but this suggestion was rejected by British Prime Minister David Lloyd George.

When Jamaica was granted independence from Britain in August 1962, the Turks & Caicos Islands became a Crown colony.

From 1965, the governor of the Bahamas was also governor of the Turks and Caicos Islands and oversaw affairs for the islands.

When the Bahamas gained independence in 1973, the Turks and Caicos received their own governor ( the last administrator was restyled ).

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The Turks Islands are separated from the Caicos Islands by Turks Island Passage, which is more than deep ), The islands form a chain that stretches north – south.

Turks Bank, which is smaller than Caicos Bank, has a total area of about.

Mouchoir Bank is part of the Turks and Caicos Islands and falls within its Exclusive Economic Zone.

The Turks and Caicos Islands are divided into six administrative districts ( two in the Turks Islands and four in the Caicos Islands ), headed by district commissioners.

Together with nearby islands, all on Turks Bank, those two main islands form the two of the six administrative districts of the territory that fall within the Turks Islands.

east of the Turks Islands and separated from them by Mouchoir Passage is the Mouchoir Bank.

South of it are the lands of the Turks, where Odin had possessions ; thus, the mountains must be the Caucasus Mountains.

In the east the Empire was overrun by the Seljuk Turks ; from the north Bulgarians and Vlachs descended unchecked to ravage the plains of Macedonia and Thrace, and Kaloyan of Bulgaria annexed several important cities, while Alexios squandered the public treasure on his palaces and gardens and attempted to deal with the crisis through diplomatic means.

The victory also lies on the planar surface ; The sun outshone the moon just as the Imperial and allied army successfully repel the Turks.

) The mosques that were built after the conquest of Constantinople ( Istanbul ) by the Ottoman Turks in 1453, and influenced by the design of the 6th century Byzantine basilica of Hagia Sophia, had increasingly elevated and large central domes, which create a vertical emphasis that is intended to be more overwhelming ; in order to convey the divine power of Allah, the majesty of the Ottoman Sultan, and the governmental authority of the Ottoman State.

Louis XIV ultimately had to relinquish the Electorate of the Palatinate. Frederick II of Prussia | Frederick II, the Great, of Prussia ( 1712 – 1786 ) Afterwards Hungary was reconquered from the Turks ; Austria, under the Habsburgs, developed into a great power.

The Oghuz Turks controlled western Kazakhstan from the 9th through the 11th centuries ; the Kimak and Kipchak peoples, also of Turkic origin, controlled the east at roughly the same time.

For Europe as a whole, 1500 is often considered to be the end of the Middle Ages, but there is no universally agreed upon end date ; depending on the context, events such as Christopher Columbus's first voyage to the Americas in 1492, conquest of Constantinople by the Turks in 1453, or the Protestant Reformation in 1517 are sometimes used.

Before Brabantio reaches Othello, news arrives in Venice that the Turks are going to attack Cyprus ; therefore Othello is summoned to advise the senators.

:" To extirpate inveterate abuses ; to reform a court which thrived on corruption, and detested the very name of reform ; to hold in leash young and warlike princes, ready to bound at each other's throats ; to stem the rising torrent of revolt in Germany ; to save Christendom from the Turks, who from Belgrade now threatened Hungary, and if Rhodes fell would be masters of the Mediterranean -- these were herculean labours for one who was in his sixty-third year, had never seen Italy, and was sure to be despised by the Romans as a ' barbarian '.

But France was estranged ; the Duke of Burgundy broke his positive promises ; Milan was engrossed with the attempt to seize Genoa ; Florence cynically advised the Pope to let the Turks and the Venetians wear each other out.

In the list of more important bulls issued by him the famous bull " In Coena Domini " ( 1568 ) takes a leading place ; but amongst others throwing light on Pope Pius V's character and policy there may be mentioned his prohibition of quaestuary ( February 1567 and January 1570 ); the condemnation of Michael Baius, the heretical Professor of Leuven ( 1567 ); the reform of the breviary ( July 1568 ); the denunciation of the " dirum nefas " ( August 1568 ); the banishment of the Jews from the ecclesiastical dominions except Rome and Ancona ( 1569 ); the injunction of the use of the reformed missal ( July 1570 ); the confirmation of the privileges of the Society of Crusaders for the protection of the Inquisition ( October 1570 ); the dogmatic certainty of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary ( November 1570 ); the suppression of the Fratres Humiliati for profligacy ( February 1571 ); the approbation of the new office of the Blessed Virgin ( March 1571 ); the enforcement of the daily recitation of the Canonical Hours ( September 1571 ); and the purchase of assistance against the Turks by offers of plenary pardon ( March 1572 ).

Various theories have been proposed to account for its origins and characteristics, focusing on a variety of factors including the social and civic peculiarities of Florence at the time ; its political structure ; the patronage of its dominant family, the Medici ; and the migration of Greek scholars and texts to Italy following the Fall of Constantinople at the hands of the Ottoman Turks.

Hungarians ( Székely and other Magyars ; see Hungarians in Romania ), especially in Harghita, Covasna, and Mureş counties, and the Roma are the principal minorities, with a declining German population ( Banat Swabians in Timiş ; Transylvanian Saxons in Sibiu, Braşov and elsewhere ), and smaller numbers of Czechs, Slovaks, Serbs, Chinese, Croats, and Banat Bulgarians ( in Banat ), Ukrainians ( especially in Maramureş and Bukovina ), Greeks of Romania ( especially in Brăila and Constanţa ), Turks and Tatars ( mainly in Constanţa ), Armenians, Russians ( Lipovans, Old Believers in Tulcea ), Jews and others.

Indeed, such was the perceived threat of the Ottoman Empire under the reign of Suleiman that ambassador Busbecq warned of Europe's imminent conquest: " On Turks ' side are the resources of a mighty empire, strength unimpaired, habituation to victory, endurance of toil, unity, discipline, frugality and watchfulness ... Can we doubt what the result will be ?... When the Turks have settled with Persia, they will fly at our throats supported by the might of the whole East ; how unprepared we are I dare not say.

Some prominent examples of liberal talk radio shows currently in national syndication include: Dial Global talk show hosts Ed Schultz, Stephanie Miller, Thom Hartmann, and Bill Press ; The Young Turks ; Fox News host Alan Colmes, First Amendment Radio Network Libertarian host Jon Arthur, self-distributed Norman Goldman and Mike Malloy, and Premiere's Randi Rhodes.

This use has extended to the Internet with the abbreviated " slm " being commonly used amongst Turks on social networking websites.

The Turks and Caicos Music and Poetry Festival is a major annual event, attracting such artists as ( in 2004 ) Chaka Khan, Maxi Priest, Boyz II Men, Joe, Shocking Vibes Band, TCI All Star Band and Blakout Crew.

These languages are spoken in a wide arc stretching from northeast Asia through Central Asia to Anatolia and eastern Europe ( Turks, Kalmyks ).

Frequently interspersed throughout the folded mountains, and also situated on the Anatolian Plateau, are well-defined basins, which the Turks call " ova ".

The majority of the population is French, but there are sizable groups of Italians, Spaniards ( Up to 20 % of the Bordeaux population claim some degree of Spanish heritage ), Portuguese, Turks, Germans and North Africans ..

The Cossacks are thought to have numbered as much 100, 000 men, most of them low-grade foot troops, plus 40, 000 allied Crimean Tatar cavalry and a few thousand Turks and Vlachs.

And thousands who are Middle Easterner descendants: Arabs, Lebanese, Palestinians, Syrians, Europeans, Armenians, Italians, Greeks and Turks came to Guatemala after World War I.

The largest ethnic minority groups are Turks, Southern Europeans ( mostly Greeks and Italians ), Eastern Europeans ( e. g. Poles, Russians ), Arabs and several other smaller groups.

There are also Circassians, Turks, Samaritans, Bedouins and Yazidis.

* 1444 – Battle of Varna: The crusading forces of King Vladislaus III of Varna ( aka Ulaszlo I of Hungary and Wladyslaw III of Poland ) are crushed by the Turks under Sultan Murad II and Vladislaus is killed.

The medieval historian Ibn Athir relates a passage from another commander: "... both you and Saladin are Kurds and you will not let power pass into the hands of the Turks ": Minorsky ( 1953 ), p. 138 .</ ref > He led Muslim opposition to the Franks and other European Crusaders in the Levant.

* 1821 – Tripolitsa, Greece, falls and 30, 000 Turks are massacred during the Greek War of Independence.

Following the adoption of Islam c. 950 by the Kara-Khanid Khanate and the Seljuq Turks, who are both regarded as the ethnic and cultural ancestors of the Ottomans, the administrative language of these states acquired a large collection of loanwords from Arabic and Persian.

Frequently interspersed throughout the folded mountains, and also situated on the Anatolian Plateau, are well-defined basins, which the Turks call ova.