Artículo Global Urban History, 13.02.2017 Adam Mestyan, historiador, profesor (U. de Duke) e investigador (French Institute of Oriental Archeology-Cairo)On a Sunday at the end of January 1863 groups of sheikhs, notables, merchants, consuls, and soldiers gathered in the Citadel of Cairo. They came to witness a crucial event: the reading aloud of the imperial firman that affirmed the...
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