History (and related interesting facts)

Apparently the ancient Jews got into quite a few tussels with the Romans. This included the destruction of the temple in Jerusalem.

It is interesting to me, but I do not want to claim something that I do not know. 

A million sounds like a hefty exaggeration. I don't believe Rome even had a population of a million at that time.

Jews and "eastern" Christians had a good time in Persia and Arabia tho, until Islam came in...

About the battle of Lake Tanganyika between the British and Belgians against the Germans in colonial East Africa.



About general warfare in German East Africa.



And lastly, about General Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck whom waged guerilla war against occupying British troops in German East Africa until the very end of the war.

This is dark.

Apparently, during the 1988 purges in Iran, women were lashed for missing their daily prayers. When one woman died after 22 days and 550 lashes, the authorities certified her death as suicide because it was 'she who had made the decision not to pray'.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1988_executions_of_Iranian_political_prisoners#Dealing_with_women

Another popular song there.. Ballad for Çanakkale




"I am not ordering you to fight, I am ordering you to die" - Ataturk

In Çanakkale stands the Mirror Bazaar.
Mother I set forth against the enemy, oh, my youth, alas!
In Çanakkale there's a cypress tree.
Some of us are engaged, some of us married, oh, my youth, alas!
In Çanakkale there's a broken jug.
Mothers and fathers abandoned hope, oh, my youth, alas!
Çanakkale's heights are shrouded with smoke.
The thirteenth division marched to war, oh, my youth, alas!
In Çanakkale the cannonballs landed.
Ah, our comrades fell wounded together, oh, my youth, alas!
Çanakkale's bridge is narrow, impassable.
Its waters have become red blood, not a cup can be drunk, oh, my youth, alas.
From Çanakkale I barely escaped
My lungs rotted from vomiting blood, oh, my youth, alas!
From Çanakkale I escaped, my head is safe
Doomsday came before I reached Anafarta, oh my youth, alas
In Çanakkale they shot me.
They buried me before I died, oh, my youth, alas!
In Çanakkale are rows of willows
Brave lions rest beneath them, oh, my youth, alas.

OMG... I'm pro-Greek and pro-Armenian and all these Turkish songs are triggering me!

So why do the Greeks and the Turks have a long standing feud?

Well... Could be the Greco-Persian wars, but hell if I know for sure.

Also:



...!!!!!!!!!

Because Turks occupied 4/5 of Greek lands since 11th century! And the Ottomans did an ugly massacre of Greeks in late WW1 a bit different than Armenian Genocide tho.

Although 1/4 of Anatolia belonged to the Armenians prior to the Seljuks invasion and even Ottomans, the culture was similar and there was not lots of conflicts between them. But under Muslim Ottoman rule they lost some of their freedoms and wealth.

Turks hate them, just because they're not Muslim.

CONSTANTINOPLE TRIGGER.