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Madagascar Poised to Be Major Ecotourism Destination over Next Decade.
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By Josh Harkinson, Environmental News Network, Berkeley, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Jan. 15--Along the road in rural Madagascar, giant baobab trees sit like vegetable elephants and malnourished children dance in hopes that travelers speeding by will toss them money. Our van, lurching over the rutted Malagasy National Highway, had long ago passed the last wooden shanty when the front tire fell off and rolled into the distance.
Some of the passengers found this unsettling, but others agreed that it was only an average debacle, climbing out ...
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The Mamluks in Egyptian Politics and Society.(Review)
Magazine article from: Canadian Journal of History
; ...generation ("white") Mamluks, their Egyptian...for example. Being Mamluk is predicated on...into a graveyard for Mamluk power and identity...genesis of the "neo-Mamluks" is explained in...renegade "neo-Mamluks," and their "fundamentalist...foreign birth and Mamluk "monopoly" of ...
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Mamluks' Magic Carpet Ride
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; ...that the design of the Mamluk carpets echoes early...Golden Horde, whence many Mamluks were descended. While...complex symmetry of the Mamluk carpets' geometric patterns...remains in Cairo, the Mamluk capital. The others...Empire, successor to the Mamluks. Many carpets were cut...
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The mamluks: James Waterson introduces the slave warriors of medieval Islam who overthrew their masters, defeated the Mongols and the Crusaders and established a dynasty that lasted three hundred years.
Magazine article from: History Today
; ...clique produced the Mamluk Sultans; from...1517 the Burgi Mamluks were dominant...regiment. The word Mamluk means 'owned' and the Mamluks were not native...And at the centre Mamluk politics were bloody and brutal. Mamluks were not supposed...
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Mongols and Mamluks: The Mamluk-Ilkhanid War, 1260-1281.
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society
; ...wars of the Mongols and Mamluks, yet these determined the outcomes of Mamluk and Crusader history...society. Mongols and Mamluks also enlarges and improves...Mamluks. In Mongols and Mamluks, after a thorough and...exploitation of the Mamluk
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Was Cyprus a Mamluk protectorate? Mamluk policies toward Cyprus between 1426 and 1517.
Magazine article from: Journal of Cyprus Studies
; ...protectorate" for the Mamluk-Cypriot relationship after 1426, when the Mamluks managed to subdue the...definition of a protectorate. Mamluk-Cypriot relations were...required to help the Mamluks by taking measures against pirates threatening Mamluk shores in the 15th century...
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Nomads on ponies vs. slaves in horses. (Mamluk-Ilkhanid War)(book review)
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society
; ...wars of the Mongols and Mamluks, yet these determined the outcomes of Mamluk and Crusader history...society. Mongols and Mamluks also enlarges and improves...Mamluks. In Mongols and Mamluks, after a thorough and...exploitation of the Mamluk
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The Knights of Islam: The Wars of the Mamluks.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Military Review
; ...were thwarted by Mamluk power. It is...if not for the Mamluks' victory in 1260...farther west. The Mamluks' golden era of...12th century, Mamluk slaves had been...evolutionary tale of the Mamluk's military society. The Mamluks trained rigorously...
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The Citadel of Cairo: A New Interpretation of Royal Mamluk Architecture.
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society
; ...century to the end of the reign of the Mamluk sultan al-Nasir Muhammad (r. 1294...and forgotten nothing. Specialists in Mamluk history will now be able to localize activities...architectural vocabulary during the early Mamluk period. This impressive book comprehends...
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The Turkish empire: Goodbye to the Mamluks.
Magazine article from: The Economist (US)
; ...smashed the forces of the Mamluk sultan of Cairo. The...the 13th century, the Mamluks--a samurai-like...the past 250 of them, Mamluk sultans had used these...the commander of the Mamluk left flank pulled his...assured the rout of the Mamluks. The sultan was killed...
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The construction of Islamic-educational institutions in Mamluk Gaza.(Essay)
Magazine article from: Nebula
; ...Mongolian invasion of Syria during the Mamluk period, which directly or indirectly...and religious institutions during the Mamluk period, in the southern and coastal cities...in those cities were founded during the Mamluk period after the Crusaders were entirely...
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