Other ethnic communities like Greeks, Turks, Italians and Yugoslavs are found in its capital city, Prague.

She said that she, like many other Georgians, feels existentially threatened by growing Arab, Iranian and Turkish presence in the neighborhood and, more broadly, in Georgia.

The city was burned down by the Tatars in 1513, by the Ottomans in 1538, and by Imperial Russian troops in 1686.

The Battle of Dorylaeum took place during the First Crusade on July 1, 1097, between the crusaders and the Seljuk Turks, near the city of Dorylaeum in Anatolia.

LONDON Ever since Greek Cypriots rejected the United Nations plan to reunite Cyprus in 2004, antagonism has grown between the Greek majority and the Turks in the north of the island.

While the ruling minority has been generally tolerant of Christians, Kurds, Druze, and Turks, who together comprise 29 of the population, the regime has long oppressed the Sunni majority.

That's one of the reasons so much of what we've come to think of as Western science and mathematics and engineering was really worked out in the first few centuries of the Common Era by the Persians and the Arabs and the Turks.

Moreover, Russia is hinting at the many worries within EU countries about potential demands for self rule, by, for example, the Basques in Spain, the Turks in northern Cyprus, and the large Hungarian minorities in Romania and Slovakia.

On 30 May, General A. D. Belliard, the French commander in Cairo, was assailed on two sides by British forces under General John Hely Hutchinson and Turks under Yusuf Pasha after negotiations, Belliard agreed to evacuate Cairo and to sail with his 13,734 troops to France.

Just as a loss of confidence among Kurds and Turks in eastern Turkey will rock the shaky stability that they have recently enjoyed, a loss of hope for a settlement of the Nagorno Karabakh dispute may end the tentative military calm between Armenians and Azerbaijanis.