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2 de abr. de 2010 · Since March 22, authorities have come across four separate grisly scenes of beheaded bodies, in one case with several heads placed neatly in a row. Dozens of people have been decapitated in recent months, most of them apparently members of rival drug gangs locked in turf battles over narcotics routes, betrayals of loyalty and territorial influence.
14 de ago. de 2019 · More than 800 male inhabitants of the southern Italian city of Otranto were beheaded on this day in 1480 by soldiers of the Ottoman Empire. Legend has it that these men - 813 in total from the age of 15 upwards - were the only male survivors after Otranto , a port city some 35km (22 miles) southeast of Lecce, was captured by the Ottomans at the end of a 15-day siege.
Decapitation was a standard method of capital punishment in pre-modern Islamic law. By the end of the 20th century, its use had been abandoned in most countries. Decapitation is still a legal method of execution in Saudi Arabia and Yemen. [1] It is also a legal method for execution in Zamfara State, Nigeria under Sharia. [2]
21 de sept. de 2023 · The Legendary Killer of Over 80,000 People. Vlad III Dracula/Vlad the Impaler. Voivode of Wallachia. The brutal Vlad the Impaler, believed to be the inspiration for Bram Stoker’s , was born in Sighisoara, Transylvania (today’s Romania) in 1431. He was part of the Draculesti dynasty. Vlad was the 2nd son of Vlad II Dracul and Eupraxia of ...
9 de nov. de 2021 · The destabilisation of the Ottoman Empire through internal issues, Russian expansionism in the Caucuses and Balkans not to mention direct French intervention in Egypt and Syria between 1798-1801 created opportunities for ambitious leaders like Muhammad Ali Pasha and Saud Al Kabeer (the great) to carve out nations from the flesh of the empire. In 1811 … Continue reading "The Ottoman Wahhabi War"
The Armenian genocide was the systematic destruction of the Armenian people and identity in the Ottoman Empire during World War I.Spearheaded by the ruling Committee of Union and Progress (CUP), it was implemented primarily through the mass murder of around one million Armenians during death marches to the Syrian Desert and the forced Islamization of others, primarily women and children.
24 de jun. de 2021 · With such a multiethnic Empire, the Ottomans were bound to face conflict when nationalism was popularized in the wake of the French Revolution that had occurred during the 1790s. During the late 18th century and early 19th century, Serbs and Greeks held multiple large revolts, such as the Orlov revolt in Greece during 1770 and the Serbian uprisings that took place between 1788 and 1817.
