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The city was sacked again — this time by the Turks — and incorporated into the Ottoman Empire. As a result ... Polish King Jan III Sobieski, the ruler of the Polish-Lithuanian commonwealth ...

On March 28, on the way to break the daily fast of Ramadan, Rümeysa Öztürk, a Turkish psychology PhD student at Tufts, was ...

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