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unusual facts about Turco


Il gran Tamerlano

The story of Il gran Tamerlano is based on events surrounding the Battle of Ankara of 1402, fought between the forces of the Ottoman sultan Bayezid I and the Turco-Mongol ruler Timur, who is known in English-speaking countries as Tamerlane.


Bahik

The "Village of Behik" is a protocol signed in Constantinople in 1913 which drew most of the Turco-Persian border.

Chowdur

Many Choudur appear to have stayed on the Mangyshlak Peninsula from then through the Timurid and the Shaybanid Uzbek periods, beginning the Turco-Mongol transformation of these originally Turko-Iranian people.

El Turco Naím

Naím Sibara, also known as "El Turco Naím", (born in Luan Toro, La Pampa, Argentina, 17 June 1966) is an Argentine actor, comedian and musician.

Jowan Le Besco

He is the second child in a family of five, the son of Franco-Algerian actress and journalist of Kabyl and Turco-Mongol descent, Catherine Belkhodja.

Lewis Turco

The Fog: Chamber Opera in One Act (score), music by Walter Hekster, libretto by Lewis Turco, Amsterdam: Donemus, 1987.

Turco took a keen interest in poetry as a teenager and after high school, while serving in the U.S. Navy aboard the USS Hornet, he had work published in various little magazines and quarterlies.

Luigi Arditi

His Inno Turco (1856) for Sultan Abdülmecid I set to a Turkish text was later sung in London during the state visit of Sultan Abdülaziz at Crystal Palace by a British choir of 1600 in July 1867.

Muslim conquest of Transoxiana

In winter 737 Suluk, along with his allies al-Harith, Gurak (a Turco-Sogdian leader) and men from Usrushana, Tashkent and Khuttal launched a final offensive.

Nico Fidenco

1984 Super4 - Siglaquattro/RCA - SIG 1021 (with Jimmy Fontana, Gianni Meccia and Riccardo Del Turco)

Prostitution in Italy

Giuliano Amato, Minister of Institutional Reforms, suggested that instead the client should be penalised and Antonio Di Pietro (Lista Di Pietro) introduced a bill into the Senate but raised the ire of feminist politicians, in particular Livia Turco who emphasised that prostitution should be decriminalised and only true abuse be penalised.

Tonkin Expeditionary Corps

On 23 December the transports Vinh Long, Européen, Comorin and Cholon left Toulon to embark the Legion, Turco and Bat' d'Af' reinforcements at Mers-el-Kebir and Oran.


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