Sentence examples for under Turkish domination from inspiring English sources

The remainder of Bessarabia fell under Turkish domination when Moldavia submitted to the Turks in the 16th century.

For nearly five centuries Bulgaria was under Turkish domination, and the church was administered by the patriarch of Constantinople through a Greek clergy.

Between 1802 and 1812 his great collection of sculptures, taken chiefly from the Parthenon at Athens, then under Turkish domination, was brought to England.

His epistolary novel Hyperion; oder, der Eremit in Griechenland (1797 99; Hyperion; or, The Hermit in Greece) integrates ideals of Platonic philosophy into a revolutionary concern for the restoration of the ancient poetical and intellectual grandeur of a Greece that had come under Turkish domination.

The document of separation from Turkish domination was signed, and the flag raised, under the leadership of an Ottoman diplomat of Albanian ethnicity, Ismail Qemali (1844-1919), a member of the Bektashi order of spiritual Sufi Muslims.

The siege marked the beginning of the end of Turkish domination in eastern Europe.

Nearly four centuries of Ottoman Turkish domination between the 15th and 19th centuries reinforced the Romanians' attachment to the East.

At the center of it is the character of T. E. Lawrence, the sexually masochistic scholar and warrior who leads disorganized Arab Bedouins to reclaim their greatness after centuries of Turkish domination.

In 1396 the Ottoman sultan Bayezid I defeated a Crusader army led by King Sigismund of Hungary at Nikopol, an event that contributed significantly to Turkish domination of the Balkans for five centuries.

An institution with a 1,100 year-old history, which survived centuries of Turkish domination and decades of communism, the church has recently seen its prestige and influence among the Bulgarian society dwindle.

Kurds, whose villages were gassed and razed by Mr. Hussein, fear the loss of that autonomy in a war that might result in Turkish domination, or their reunification with a new central government in Baghdad.