Pliny (NH, 16.20) and Suetonius (Claudius, 20.3) have told us the story of the great ship that Caligula had built for the transport of the obelisk now in the Vatican, which was later sunk by Claudius

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The paper sheds light on the politics of language (Turkish, Arabic, and Persian) and literary patronage in Safavid Iran in the first few decades of the eighteenth century, offering parallels to the

This conference aims at outlining the history of the word millet (Arabic millah) in Turkish-Ottoman texts from the 15th century up to the beginning of the 20th. During the early

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