ottoman
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She says it is now clear that the library's archive - seen as an invaluable record of Palestinian history, with many Ottoman records - was totally burned.
From BBC
Many of the grander ones were converted into mosques by the Ottomans and museums in the early years of the Turkish republic.
They lived in Ottoman Salonica, a melting-pot of Greeks, Turks, Jews, Albanians and cosmopolitan traders from all over Europe.
It became a mosque under the Ottoman Empire and a museum under the Republic of Turkey.
A Jewish homeland in backwaters of the Ottoman empire seemed unattainable, and pressing domestic concerns like slavery and temperance took precedence.
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