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Good News in History, May 13
748 years ago today, the ruler of a large Turkish beylik in southern Anatolia, Mehmet I of Karaman, issued a decree which read: "From...
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On This Day in History
Good News in History, May 13
748 years ago today, the ruler of a large Turkish beylik in southern Anatolia, Mehmet I of Karaman, issued a decree which read: "From now on nobody in the palace, in the divan, council and on walks speak no language other than Turkish." It was the first time a modern Turkish state of any kind elevated their own ancestral language above the positions of Arabic and Persian, the lingue franca of the Islamic world. READ a tad more about this historic event... (1277)