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  2. Names of Istanbul - Wikipedia

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    İstanbul originally was not used for the entire city, instead the name referred to the core of Istanbul—the walled city. [18] İstanbul was the common name for the city in normal speech in Turkish even before the conquest of 1453, [ citation needed ] but in official use by the Ottoman authorities other names, such as Kostantiniyye , were ...

  3. List of sultans of the Ottoman Empire - Wikipedia

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    Assassinated in Istanbul on 28 July 1808 at the behest of Ottoman Sultan Mustafa IV. 29 Mustafa IV: 29 May 1807 – 28 July 1808 (1 year, 60 days) Son of Abdul Hamid I and Sineperver Sultan. Deposed in an insurrection led by Alemdar Mustafa Pasha. Executed in Istanbul on 17 November 1808 by order of Ottoman Sultan Mahmud II. —

  4. Taxonomic rank - Wikipedia

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    The basic ranks are species and genus. When an organism is given a species name it is assigned to a genus, and the genus name is part of the species name. The species name is also called a binomial, that is, a two-term name. For example, the zoological name for the human species is Homo sapiens. This is usually italicized in print or underlined ...

  5. Timeline of Istanbul - Wikipedia

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    14 January: Istanbul Chamber of Commerce established. 1883 School of Economics established. [6] Orient Express (Paris–Istanbul) begins operating. Drita Albanian magazine begins publishing. 1886 1 September: Getronagan Armenian High School established. Yıldız Hamidiye Mosque built. 1887 Ertuğrul Tekke Mosque built. Hidayet Mosque rebuilt. 1890

  6. List of Ottoman titles and appellations - Wikipedia

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    The sovereigns' main titles were Sultan, Padishah (Emperor) and Khan; which were of various origins such as Arabic, Persian and Turkish or Mongolian. respectively.His full style was the result of a long historical accumulation of titles expressing the empire's rights and claims as successor to the various states it annexed or subdued.

  7. Phylum - Wikipedia

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    The term phylum was coined in 1866 by Ernst Haeckel from the Greek phylon (φῦλον, "race, stock"), related to phyle (φυλή, "tribe, clan"). [4] [5] Haeckel noted that species constantly evolved into new species that seemed to retain few consistent features among themselves and therefore few features that distinguished them as a group ("a self-contained unity"): "perhaps such a real and ...

  8. History of Istanbul - Wikipedia

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    The city's current name İstanbul is a shortened version with a Turkish character of the Medieval Greek phrase "εἰς τὴν Πόλιν" [is tin ˈpolin], meaning "to the city", which had long been in vernacular use by the local population.

  9. Kingdom (biology) - Wikipedia

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    Combined with the five-kingdom model, this created a six-kingdom model, where the kingdom Monera is replaced by the kingdoms Bacteria and Archaea. [16] This six-kingdom model is commonly used in recent US high school biology textbooks, but has received criticism for compromising the current scientific consensus. [ 13 ]