With the beginning of the slow decline of the Ottoman Empire in the early 19th century, and as a result of the expansionist policies of Czarist Russia in the Caucasus, many Muslim nations and groups in that region, mainly Circassians, Tatars, Azeris, Lezgis, Chechens, and several Turkic groups left their ancestral homelands and settled in Anatolia.

With the increase of pilgrims visiting ` Abdu ' l-Bahá, Muhammad ` Alí worked with the Ottoman authorities to re-introduce stricter terms on ` Abdu ' l-Bahá's imprisonment in August 1901.

With the coming of the Mamluks in 1250, the city's walls were demolished, and were subsequently rebuilt during the rule of the Ottoman Empire.

With the outbreak of the war, the Ottoman Empire activated three Army HQs: the Thracian HQ in Constantinople, the Western HQ in Salonika, and the Vardar HQ in Skopje, against the Bulgarians, the Greeks and the Serbians respectively.

With most of the strategic reserve sent to the Western Front, an Egyptian Expeditionary Force of two British infantry and one Australian and New Zealand mounted division in Eastern Force, successfully defend the Suez Canal and Romani in 1916 from German and Ottoman incursions.

With the development of trade routes under the Ottoman Empire,

With the advent of the Ottoman Turks and the conquest of Syria by Sultan Selim I in 1516, the Ma ' ans were acknowledged by the new rulers as the feudal lords of southern Lebanon.

With the signing of the Treaty of Ryswick in September / October 1697, the desultory war in the west was finally brought to an inconclusive end, and Leopold I could once again devote all his martial energies into defeating the Ottoman Turks in the east.

With the declaration of war, the Greek Army of Thessaly under Crown Prince Constantine advanced to the north, successfully overcoming Ottoman opposition in the fortified Straits of Sarantaporo.

With the end of the war in November 1918, the moribund Ottoman Empire was ready to be carved up amongst the victors, and Greece now expected the Allies to deliver on their promises.

With the conquest of Constantinople by Mehmed II in 1453, the Ottoman state became an empire.

With the Ottoman Turks blockading sea-lanes to the East and South, the European powers were driven to find another way to the ancient silk and spice routes, now under Ottoman control.

With the conquest of Karesi, nearly the whole of northwestern Anatolia was included in the Ottoman Empire, and the four cities of Bursa, Izmit ( Nicomedia ), Iznik ( Nicea ), and Bergama ( Pergamum ) had become strongholds of its power.

With the expansion of the Ottoman Empire into eastern Arabia in 1871, Qatar became vulnerable to occupation.

With his main European rivals subdued, Suleiman had assured the Ottoman Empire a powerful role in the political landscape of Europe.

With the Congress of Berlin in 1878, Northern Thrace was incorporated into the semi-autonomous Ottoman province of Eastern Rumelia, which united with Bulgaria in 1885.

With the Holy Land incorporated into the Ottoman empire, a slow influx of Jews performing aliyah took place, and some Sephardi kabbalists settled in Hebron.

With the decline of the Ottoman Empire after 1700, signs of revival started to emerge.

With the break-up of the Ottoman Empire at the end of World War I, the League of Nations and the occupying powers were required to redraw the borders of the Middle East.

With the Treaty of Belgrade, the Habsburgs ceded the Kingdom of Serbia with Belgrade, the southern part of the Banat of Temeswar and northern Bosnia to the Ottomans, and Oltenia, gained by the Treaty of Passarowitz in 1718, to Wallachia ( an Ottoman subject ), and set the demarcation line to the rivers Sava and Danube.

With the arrival of the Ottoman Empire, some Serbs and Croats converted to Islam.

With the occupation of the Balkans by the Ottoman Empire, Islam was introduced, therefore there exist " Muslim Slavs "; Gorani, Bosniaks, Muslims by nationality etc., where Serbs traditionally live.

With the proclamation of the Republic of Turkey on October 29, 1923, the authority of the Ottoman Empire over the Patriarch was transferred to the Republic.

With the rule of the Ottoman Empire after 1450, the Ottoman as well as the Austro-Hungarian terms exchanged the Serbian one.

With the take-over by the English Parliament of the Tower mint in 1642, the king set up his permanent headquarters at Oxford and established his main mint there.

With the reverse take-over of the Compton agency in 1976 they achieved a Public company listing and were thereafter able to make Rights issues to raise the capital required for their acquisition drive.

With the Scandinavian Airlines System take-over of Braathens in May, Coast Air became the largest airline in the country not owned by the SAS Group.

With the railway and an expanding agricultural area, the township grew until with the dieselisation of the railway systems, and the take-over by the State of the Midland Railway in 1964, decline set in.

With the take-over, the lines were numbered, and the Sognsvann Line designated 81, although this was quickly changed to 13.

With the antagonism of the European powers mounting, and smarting from her humiliation by the Austrians at the Bosnian crisis, Russia sought to gain the upper hand by creating a Russophile " Slavic block " in the Balkans, directed both against Austria-Hungary and the Ottomans.

With Gornje Podrinje Foča was part of the old Serbian State up to 1376, when it was attached to the Bosnian State under the reign of King Tvrtko.

With the advent of the playoff rounds, Sarajevo is twice perform in the first round of the UEFA Cup and one in the third round of the Champions League, which represents the biggest success of the postwar Bosnian team performances at the Euro-scene.

With the return of Amar Osim in summer 2009, Željezničar once more succeeded to claim the championship in 2009 – 10 season, but failed to claim the double as they lost in the final of 2009 – 10 Bosnian cup to Borac on away goals yet remaining undefeated.

With these demo songs and the organization that fmjam provided, Bosnian hip hop for the first time had a organization to rely on to have the resources available to provide for future acts and organize concerts and hip hop gatherings for the youth.

With the outbreak of the Bosnian War the band Zabranjeno Pušenje from Sarajevo split into two factions, both named Zabranjeno Pušenje: the Sarajevo faction, led by the original Zabranjeno Pušenje guitarist Sejo Sexon, and the Belgrade faction, led by the original Zabranjeno Pušenje vocalist Nele Karajlić.

With the beginning of the Bosnian war in early 1992, SAF offices in Sarajevo suburb Ilidza were destroyed.

With the construction of the rail line connecting the Bosnian capital of Sarejevo with its eastern border town Višegrad the town of Pale received its first railway station.

With the coming of Nijaz Gracić and Husref Musemić in 2006, the club would develop a comprehensive plan to reach back to Premier League and compete at the highest level of Bosnian football.

With the ecclesiastical parishes of St Fagan's ( Trecynon ) and Aberaman carved out of the ancient parish, Aberdare had 12 Anglican churches and one Roman Catholic church, built in 1866 in Monk Street near the site of a cell attached to Penrhys monastery, and at one time had over 50 Nonconformist chapels.

With the conversion of Sergius Paulus, Paul begins to gain prominence over Barnabas from the point where the name " Paul ," his Roman name, is substituted for " Saul " ( 13: 9 ); instead of " Barnabas and Saul " as heretofore ( 11: 30 ; 12: 25 ; 13: 2, 7 ) we now read " Paul and Barnabas " ( 13: 43, 46, 50 ; 14: 20 ; 15: 2, 22, 35 ); only in 14: 14 and 15: 12, 25 does Barnabas again occupy the first place, in the first passage with recollection of 14: 12, in the last two, because Barnabas stood in closer relation to the Jerusalem church than Paul.

With the crystallization of church order improvisation in prayer largely gave place to set forms, and collections of prayers were made which later developed into Sacramentaries and Orationals.

With more than 1. 1 billion baptized members, the Catholic Church is the largest church representing over half of all Christians and one sixth of the world's population.

With over 55, 000 missionaries worldwide, the church currently has a membership of over 14. 4 million and is ranked by the National Council of Churches as the fourth largest Christian denomination in the United States.

With 2, 000 congregations and a membership of some 1. 8 million ( or 10. 8 % of the Dutch population, 2009 ), it is the second largest church in the Netherlands after the Roman Catholic Church.

With the assistance of Seiichi Tanaka, Kinnara and Chicago taiko, the New York Buddhist church established the first taiko group on the East Coast, Soh Daiko, in 1979.

With Vignola, he designed the Basilica of Santa Maria degli Angeli in Assisi, the seventh largest Christian church at the time.

The roots of the gospel in the Matthew-community of the late 1st century give rise to another important title bestowed on Jesus by Matthew, Emmanuel, " God is With Us "— meaning that through Jesus, God is with the ecclesia ( literally " assembly ", but translated as " church ").

With the death of the emperor, Gregory and the Eastern churches were no longer under the threat of persecution, as the new emperor Jovian was an avowed Christian and supporter of the church.

With the protestation of the Lutheran princes at the Reichstag of Speyer ( 1529 ) and rejection of the Lutheran " Augsburg Confession " at Augsburg ( 1530 ), a separate Lutheran church emerged.

* 1800 – With the church leadership driven out of Rome during an armed conflict, Pius VII is crowned Pope in Venice with a temporary papal tiara made of papier-mâché.

With Callixtus II ’ s death on 13 December 1124, both families agreed that the election of the next pope should be in three days time, in accordance with the church canons.

With the two side-by-side, the new ideas of the Protestant Reformation could be quickly implemented, and sermons in the church where held in Swedish starting in 1525 and Latin abolished in 1530.

With a standardised, printed English Bible and Prayer Book being read to church congregations from the 1540s onward, a wider public became familiar with a standard language, and the era of Modern English was under way.

With the support of the Baptist church, classes at the Kalamazoo Theological Seminary began in 1848 with 11 students.

With the spread of Christianity in Egypt, by the late 3rd century, knowledge of hieroglyphic writing was lost, as well as Demotic slightly later, making way for a writing system more closely associated with the Christian church.

With its " simple and forthright " exterior, the Mission church stands as a tribute to those whose efforts made this dream come true.

With 6, 589, 769 baptized members, it is the largest Lutheran church in the world, although combined, there are more Lutherans in the member churches of the Evangelical Church in Germany ( 10 million ).

With the reformation and the end of monastic services, the east end of the abbey church became redundant.

With the discovery of bituminous coal deposits at the end of the 18th century by a local church priest, new industrial sectors developed in the Chorzów area.

With the resurgence of church construction after the Romanian Revolution of 1989, there are new churches built in the traditional style.

With Moffat he built the Neo-Norman church of St Peter at Norbiton ( 1841 ).

With a faculty of one professor and two tutors, classes were held in Springfield, Ohio in a church on land that was donated.

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