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Article: Geographical factors.
- Article from:
- International Journal of Kurdish Studies
- Article date:
- January 1, 2006
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Here is a land of contrasts, climates, barriers and diverse physical circumstances. It has been the birthplace of civilisation, has given the world the Gospel and the Koran, has seen the rise and decline of four great Empires and scores of principalities and dynasties. It has been the battle-ground of all the philosophies and creeds which form the basis of those now occupying western minds, as well as the highway of all conquerors from Xerxes to Napoleon. The fact that the decisive historical events which have occurred within the Asiatic Provinces of the Sultan are those which have moulded the whole of the spiritual and material destinies of mankind, should give us food ...
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