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Bookmark or Share- Muslim population in Islamic Iberia - History Stack ExchangeBy 1100 AD, Leon had captured Toledo, and by the latter half of the 13th century, the Christians took Seville and Cordoba as well. This left Muslim Hispania only the little Emirate of Granada on the southern Mediterranean coast. This is where things stood in 1346 AD, which is the next time Mr. McEvedy deigns to give me population numbers again.
- What was Muhammad's religion before becoming a Muslim prophet?Today the Kaaba is the official direction of Muslim prayer and all mosques and prayer locations will have a qibla to orient the supplicant towards the Kaaba (in some Western countries, the qibla is sometimes shorthanded by non-Muslims as pointing "east"). But prior to being the Muslim center of the world, it was a pagan site for centuries.
- Was the country of Papua New Guinea a part of Indonesia ever?You probably confused Papua New Guinea with West New Papua, a region that is indeed under Indonesian administration. Papua New Guinea, on the other hand, was administrated by Australia from 1906 to 1975. It's north part was under control of the German Empire from 1884 to 1914, when it was surrendered to Australia. Papua New Guinea became self ...
- south east asia - Why was New Guinea not colonized by Austronesians the ...There was some Austronesian settlement on the northern coast, but it was extremely minor compared to the colonization of the rest of the Indonesian archipelago, as suggested by the map. This remarkable study finds that ~99% of the genetic ancestry of Papua New Guinea is Papuan (~1% Austronesian), whereas ~99% of the genetic ancestry of western ...
- 20th century - Why did anti-Chinese riots occur during the Indonesian ...The protests and events in Indonesia in May 1998 led to the fall of the dictator Suharto, the reform of Indonesian government and political system, and a more liberal and democratic era. During the same time, massive anti-Chinese riots (some even call them pogroms) occured in Jakarta and some other cities, whereby there were a lot of mass ...
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