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    Maragheh (redirect from Maragha)
    The famous astronomer Ibn al-Shatir of Damascus built on the work of Maragha astronomers 100 years later. In 1256 Nasir al-Din al-Tusi came to work...
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    26°42′N 31°36′E / 26.700°N 31.600°E / 26.700; 31.600 El Maragha (Arabic: المراغة, Coptic: ⲧⲁⲗⲙⲁⲣⲁⲅⲉ) is a city in the Sohag Governorate in Upper Egypt...
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    The Maragheh observatory (Persian: رصدخانه مراغه), also spelled Maragha, Maragah, Marageh, and Maraga, was an astronomical observatory established in...
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  • Maragha (Armenian: Մարաղա; Azerbaijani: Marağa, also Maraga) or Shikharkh (Azerbaijani: Şıxarx), formerly known as Leninavan (between 1954–1992), is a...
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    kotorats) was the mass murder of Armenian civilians in the village of Maraga (Maragha) by Azerbaijani troops, which had captured the village on April 10, 1992...
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    the term "Worlds." The "Maragha Revolution" refers to the Maragha school's revolution against Ptolemaic astronomy. The "Maragha school" was an astronomical...
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    until 929. The Sajids ruled Azerbaijan and parts of Armenia first from Maragha and Barda and then from Ardabil. The Sajids originated from the Central...
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    Hims. In 1259 he moved to Maragha in northwestern Iran, after being asked by Nasir al-Din al-Tusi to help establish the Maragha observatory under the patronage...
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    Kurdicized by the early 10th century and became centered on Tabriz and Maragha. In the second half of the 10th century and much of the 11th century, these...
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  • circular motion. The "Maragha Revolution" refers to the Maragheh school's revolution against Ptolemaic astronomy. The "Maragha school" was an astronomical...
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    Ahmadilis (redirect from Atabegs of Maragha)
    The Ahmadilis (Persian: احمدیلی), also known as the Atabegs of Maragheh (اتابکان مراغه), Romanized as Atābakān-e Marāghe, were Atabegs of the Seljuk Empire...
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  • The Moqaddam family (also known as the Moqaddam tribe) are a Turkic tribe/family centered in the Iranian town of Maragheh. They were created by the Safavid...
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    heavens is actually due to the motion of the earth and not the stars. At the Maragha and Samarkand observatories, the Earth's rotation was discussed by Najm...
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  • Sulafa Khatun (d. after 1225), was the ruling atabeg of Maragha between 1209-1225. She was the last member of the Ahmadilis dynasty and its only female...
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  • El Kanayat El Mahalla El Kubra El Mahmoudiyah El Mansha El Manzala El Maragha El Matareya El Qantara El Qanater El Khayreya El Qoseir El Quseyya El Qurein...
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    al-Kashi's letters to Ulugh Beg's father, you can see Ulugh Beg's visit to the Maragha Observatory had an effect on Ulugh Beg. This could have affected Ulugh...
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    which was later suggested as the transit of Mercury and/or Venus by the Maragha astronomer Qotb al-Din Shirazi in the 13th century. Most such medieval...
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    centres of astronomy in intellectual history, the Ilkhanid observatory at Maragha in north-western Iran constructed in 1259 and headed by Nasir al-Dln TusT...
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    observatory of Maragha, Qutb al-Din Shirazi became attracted to the city. He left Shiraz sometime after 1260 and was in Maragha about 1262. In Maragha, Qutb al-din...
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    God) Mangutengri (that is, the living God) eternally without end farewell Given in the city of Maragha the tenth year, Nochoe (dog year), April 10th...
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    Sohag Governorate Sohag, New Sohag, Akhmim, New Akhmim, El Balyana, El Maragha, Ptolemais Hermiou, Dar El Salam, Girga, West Juhayna, Saqultah, Tima,...
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    as well as the feudals of Shirvan, Khuzestan, Ahlat, Arzan-ar-Rum and Maragha became his liegemen. Kingdom of Georgia, whose army was additionally strengthened...
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  • Ptolemy's geocentric model by al-Battani, Ibn al-Haytham, Averroes and the Maragha astronomers such as Nasir al-Din al-Tusi, Mu'ayyad al-Din al-Urdi and Ibn...
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    by the Maragha school explicitly address the Earth's rotation but it did not arrive at explicit heliocentrism. The observations of the Maragha school...
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    until 929. The Sajids ruled Azerbaijan and parts of Armenia first from Maragha and Barda and then from Ardabil. The Sajids originated from the Central...
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    instead turned north and captured Tabriz with little resistance, along with Maragha. He ordered heavy taxation of the people, which was collected by Adil Aqa...
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    in Cairo. Then in the 13th century Nasir al-Din al-Tusi constructed the Maragha Observatory in what is today Iran. Al-Tusi found the equant dissatisfying...
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    Sohag Governorate Sohag, New Sohag, Akhmim, New Akhmim, El Balyana, El Maragha, Ptolemais Hermiou, Dar El Salam, Girga, West Juhayna, Saqultah, Tima,...
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    (died 1550), a Safavid glossator of the writings of the astronomers of Maragha, about whom Saliba writes: “Through his clear perception of the role of...
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    be an ambassador to Mamluk Egypt. He arrived to the Jaghatu valley near Maragha to attend the qurultai for the election of new Il-Khan after Abaqa's death...
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