Samsun
Samsun , city (1990 pop. 301,412), capital of Samsun prov., N Turkey, on the Black Sea. The most important Turkish port on the Black Sea, it is also a major tobacco-processing center and an agricultural market. Textiles, tobacco, and fertilizer are exported. The ancient Amisus, it was founded (6th cent. BC) by Greek colonists, became an important city of the kingdom of Pontus, and was much favored under the Roman Empire. In the Middle Ages it was held by the Byzantines, the Seljuk Turks, the Genoese, and the empire of Trebizond before falling (14th cent.) to the Ottoman Turks. On May 19, 1919, Kemal Atatürk landed at Samsun to organize a nationalist movement in Turkey. A statue commemorates this event.
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MERCOSUR: INTEGRATION MAY PROMPT RETHINK OF TRIPLE ALLIANCE WAR
News Wire article from: Inter Press Service English News Wire; 6/14/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...like the official history of the War of the Triple Alliance will have to be revised. The history of the 1865-1870 War traditionally doled out in schools...his book "American Genocide: the War on Paraguay." This was a war of...
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Latin Americas total war: Peter H. Wilson revisits the War of the Triple Alliance, Latin America's bloodiest conflict.(Chronology)(Critical Essay)
Magazine article from: History Today; 5/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...nations through inter-national and civil wars in the mid-nineteenth century, much...immense but compared to the American Civil War or the wars of Italian and German Unification, this War of the Triple Alliance of 1864-70, or Lopez' War, is virtually...
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THE NEW TRIPLE ALLIANCE
News Wire article from: United Press International; 1/13/2002; 700+ words
; 00-00-0000 The new Triple Alliance WASHINGTON, Jan 13, 2002...the emergence of a new Triple Alliance in Eurasia. Israel...events of Sept. 11 and the war in Afghanistan have taken...office during the Cold War positioned India as a leader...
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The new Triple Alliance.
News Wire article from: United Press International; 1/13/2002; 700+ words
; ...the emergence of a new Triple Alliance in Eurasia. Israel, India...events of Sept. 11 and the war in Afghanistan have taken...office during the Cold War positioned India as a leader...the U.S. The emerging Triple Alliance is thus of far...
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Outlook: Japanese banking on triple alliance
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 8/20/1999; 602 words
; JAPAN'S POST-WAR economic miracle was built...consummate such a deal. The alliance between Industrial Bank of...deepest recession since the war. The banks have taken an...scale not witnessed since the war. But the option of doing...
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Dangerous Alliances: Proponents of Peace, Weapons of War.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of History; 12/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...cohesion within the alliance suffered from the common...s departure from the Triple Alliance a year after the outbreak of the First World War. One of Weitsman...traditional accounts of alliance formation and behaviour...the understanding of alliances. By building a bridge...
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Critical events leading to World War I
Newspaper article from: New Straits Times; 3/31/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...led to the First World War in 1914. This week we...events: the Franco Prussian war, the Triple Alliance, the Triple Entente, the Russo-Turkish wars and the assassination of...was the Franco- Prussian War in 1870. This resulted...
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THE LIGHTS GO OUT ALL OVER EUROPE WORLD WAR I BRINGS POISON GAS, TRENCH BATTLES AND STAGGERING CARNAGE.(OUR MILLENNIUM)
Newspaper article from: The Virginian Pilot; 5/30/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...there that the Great War - World War I - began. It began...elaborate, interlocking alliances were formed in the interest...balanced Europe were the Triple Alliance of Germany, Austria...that drew the world into war was triggered on June...
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A world at war
Magazine article from: Military Images; 9/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...the costliest of all wars of all times, the Taiping...fought in these additional wars in the period. The years...the grey. The Maori Wars New Zealand's natives...troops to defeat them. War of the Triple Alliance In November 1864 Paraguay...
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Was Saddam Prepared To Kill His Country?;The Lasting Demographic Scars of a Decade of War
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 3/3/1991; ; 700+ words
; ...a mad conflict, the War of the Triple Alliance, with the combined forces...portrayal of the effect of war on the age-sex structure...above 65 is stunning. Wars sweep away parts of generations...existed. In addition, war has another demographic...
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War of the Triple Alliance
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
War of the Triple Alliance 1865-70, fought between Paraguay on one side and an alliance...reprisals for injuries to Brazilian subjects in Uruguay's civil war brought a declaration of war against Brazil from Francisco Solano López , Paraguayan...
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Triple Alliance, War of the
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History
Triple Alliance, War of the See PARAGUAYAN WAR .
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Triple Alliance and Triple Entente
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Triple Alliance and Triple Entente , two international...into armed conflict in World War I. Formation of the Triple...for the Franco-Prussian War (1870-71) had left France...following the Russo-Turkish War, furthered the cause of Pan...
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Triple Alliance
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History
Triple Alliance. 1. 1668. Alarmed at the...this was converted into a Triple Alliance and when the Emperor...Alliance . 3. 1788. After the War of American Independence...lasted until the outbreak of war in 1914. France, Russia...
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Triple Entente
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
Triple Entente Alliance of Britain, France, and Russia before World War I. It developed from the...counterbalance the threat posed by the Triple Alliance of Germany, Austria...Convention of 1907 completed the Triple Entente.
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