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Arad (Ottoman Turkish, Arād or Arāṭ), is a town in the county of Arad, in Hungary, originally situated east of its modern location. In the tenth/sixteenth and eleventh/seventeenth centuries, it was an Ottoman administrative centre within the vilayet s (vilāyet ) of Buda and Temesvár (Timişoara) and, from 1920, a part of Rumania with a considerable Hungarian minority. First mentioned as a fortified place in the sixth/twelfth century, Arad was conquered by Sokollu Mehmed Paşa (Ṣoqollu Meḥmed Pasha), beylerbeyi (beğlerbeği ) of Rumelia, in 958/1551. Until the conquest
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- Publisher(s):Brill
- Language:eng
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