Tradition Links Qana to Biblical Miracle
The town of Qana in southern Lebanon is traditionally identified by some Christian communities as the site of the biblical event where Jesus is said to have performed ...
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The town of Qana in southern Lebanon is traditionally identified by some Christian communities as the site of the biblical event where Jesus is said to have performed ...
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After a prolonged period of civil war and the collapse of the Western Han, Liu Xiu successfully reestablished imperial authority, marking the beginning of the Eastern ...
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970–972 CE — The Fatimids establish the mosque and teaching institution that develops into al-Azhar. Over the centuries it becomes one of the most influential centers ...
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641 CE — Muslim authorities establish Fustat near the old Roman fortress of Babylon on the Nile. The city becomes the administrative center of Islamic Egypt and develo...
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641–1000 CE — Arabic did not replace Coptic immediately after the conquest. Government, migration, urban life, taxation, religious conversion and social mobility gradu...
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7th–10th centuries — Arabic increasingly replaces Greek and Coptic in government and eventually becomes the dominant spoken language. Conversion to Islam occurs over g...
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1st–4th centuries CE — Christianity spreads widely through Egypt and produces one of the ancient world's most important Christian traditions. Egyptian monasticism prof...
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30 BCE–395 CE — Egypt remains one of the Roman Empire's wealthiest provinces. Alexandria continues as a major commercial and intellectual center while traditional Egyp...
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4th–3rd centuries BCE — Several Illyrian dynasties consolidate larger kingdoms across the western Balkans. Their rulers compete with Macedonia, Epirus and Greek coasta...
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525 BCE — Cambyses II of the Achaemenid Persian Empire defeats Pharaoh Psamtik III and incorporates Egypt into the Persian imperial system. Persian kings adopt pharaon...
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c. 1070 BCE — Central royal authority weakens while powerful priestly institutions and regional rulers gain influence. Egypt loses much of its empire in the Levant and...
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30 October 1918 — The Ottoman Empire signs the Armistice of Mudros. Ottoman military resistance effectively ends and Allied forces gain extensive rights to occupy stra...
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6th–7th centuries — Slavic groups settle in parts of the Greek peninsula during major demographic upheaval.
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Its inhabitants called themselves Romans, spoke increasingly Greek and preserved an Eastern Roman state for centuries.
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