A UNESCO World Heritage Site, Shibam is a mud brick town par excellence. Named the “Manhattan of the Desert” by Freya Stark, the first Western woman to come to this region in the 1930s, it consists of 500 seven storey high skyscrapers.
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Britain, France and Turkey were unlikely allies but they banded together against Imperial Russia, in the Crimean War in the mid 19th century.
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Many residents didn’t exactly know what was going on in the base headquarters—about 15 miles outside of town.
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The Normans who emerged from Normandy in France in the 10th century were famed for their martial spirit and had a major political impact in medieval Europe.
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There are few monuments in Afghanistan from the Abbasid, Saffarid, Ghaznavid, Seljuk, Ghorid, and Khwarezmian periods that survived the later destruction with the coming of the Mongols.
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