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2007 World History

  2007 Coalition forces battle insurgents on the streets of Iraq, as secretarian violence intensifies; see Iraq Timeline 2007 for details (all year long). Romania and Bulgaria are admitted to…

Knights Hospitalers

(Encyclopedia) Knights Hospitalers, members of the military and religious Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem, sometimes called the Knights of St. John and the Knights of Jerusalem. The…

Pakistan

(Encyclopedia) CE5 PakistanPakistanpăkˈĭstănˌ, päkĭstänˈ [key], officially Islamic Republic of Pakistan, republic (2015 est. pop. 189,381,000), 310,403 sq mi (803,944 sq km), S Asia. Pakistan is…

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Arabic literature

(Encyclopedia) Arabic literature, literary works written in the Arabic language. The great body of Arabic literature includes works by Arabic speaking Turks, Persians, Syrians, Egyptians, Indians,…

Egypt

(Encyclopedia) CE5 CE5 Egypt Egypt ēˈjĭpt [key], Arab. Misr, biblical Mizraim,…

Denmark

(Encyclopedia) CE5 DenmarkDenmarkdĕnˈmärk [key], Dan. Danmark, officially Kingdom of Denmark, kingdom (2015 est. pop. 5,689,000), 16,629 sq mi (43,069 sq km), N Europe. It borders on Germany in…

Bangladesh

(Encyclopedia) CE5 Bangladesh Bangladesh bäng-lädĕshˈ, băng– [key] [Bengali,=Bengal nation], officially People's…

Arabia

(Encyclopedia) ArabiaArabiaərāˈbēə [key], peninsula (1991 est. pop. 35,000,000), c.1,000,000 sq mi (2,590,000 sq km), SW Asia. It is bordered on the W by the Gulf of Aqaba and the Red Sea, on the S…