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Political map of The Middle East

Vector illustration of the policital map of The Middle East
Reference map was created by the US Central Intelligence Agency and is available as a public domain map at the University of Texas Libraries website.
https:/cia.gov/library/publications/resources/the-world-factbook/graphics/ref_maps/political/pdf/middle_east.pdf

The Cossacks Reply to the Sultan (Zaporozhtsy), c1890, (1939). Creator: Il'ya Repin

The Cossacks Reply to the Sultan (Zaporozhtsy), c1890, (1939). Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks to Sultan Mehmed IV of Turkey, also known as Cossacks of Saporog Are Drafting a Manifesto, 19th-century imagining of a supposed historical event of 1676, based on the legend of Cossacks sending an apparently rude and insulting reply to an ultimatum from Sultan Mehmed IV of the Ottoman Empire. On the right is Taras Bulba (in a white cap), the hero of Gogol's tale of the same name; on the left is Andrei, Taras Bulba's son; almost in the centre sits Ataman (Chief) Serko with a pipe in his mouth'. Ilya Repin (1844-1930) took nearly 20 years to paint the picture, for which Tsar Alexander III paid him 35, 000 rubles, at the time the greatest sum ever paid for a Russian painting. In the collection of The State Russian Museum, St Petersburg, Russia. From "The Russian State Museum". [State Art Publishers, Moscow and Leningrad, 1939]

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Catalhoyuk (Catal Hoyuk and Catal Huyuk) - a very large Neolithic

Catalhoyuk (Catal Hoyuk and Catal Huyuk) - a very large Neolithic and Chalcolithic proto-city settlement in southern Anatolia, which existed from approximately 7100 BC to 5700 BC, and flourished around 7000 BC. Level XII and Shrine of Level VIII (top photo) and the spectacular Bull Shrine, the north wall (with a dramatic painting showing Neolithic hunters attacking an aurochs) of level V. Article by James Mellaart, Lecturer in Anatolian Archaeology in the University of London. Date: 1966

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