His name was Talaat, and he was the revolutionary mailman, delivering Salonica's mail by day and conspiring with revolutionaries and freemasons by night.

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In the summer of 1905, the Armenian Dashnaks would seek their revenge against the Red Sultan for his involvement in the Hamidian Massacres. In the process, they would earn a spot in the record books as the first ever recorded use of a car bomb. Yippee!

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With a short-lived anarchist commune, a terrorist bombing campaign, an attempted multi-ethnic Macedonian republic, and a botched Great Power intervention, the Ilinden Uprising was a colorful affair.

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Gotse Delchev, the revolutionary apostle reborn, works to construct a state within a state in Macedonia and Thrace. Yane Sandanski, his close disciple, kidnaps a protestant missionary and sets off America's very first hostage crisis.

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Everybody in the Balkans wants Macedonia. This fact makes everything a wee bit confusing.

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This 1902 Congress would mark a major turning point in the Young Turk movement. But most importantly, we have finally made it to the twentieth century.

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Wherein Muhammed Abduh and al-Afghani try to bring Islam back to its previous glory by reopening the gate of ijtihad and then kicking the British out of the East.

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So, Ahmed Riza was a positivist. But, like, what does that even mean? "Order and Progress!"

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