This act marked the end of four centuries of Ottoman-Turk rule and the beginning of thirty years of British rule.

这个行动标致着四个世纪以来奥斯曼土耳其的统治结束，三十年的英国统治开始。

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Their forefathers may have converted to Islam under Ottoman rule, but behind closed doors they kept their old Catholic practices.

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Under Ottoman rule, it is believed this rock was used to execute people - marching them to the end of the platform, then pushing them off to meet their grizzly death on the rocks of the valley far below.

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On that day the musketry and artillery of Selim the Grim, the Ottoman sultan, blasted to shreds the sword-wielding cavalry of Egypt's 250-year-old Mamluk sultanate, opening the way to 400 years of Ottoman Turkish rule over all but the peripheries of the Arab world.

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