Ah well! If you just put in your earplugs and carry on shooting, you can shut out that sort of thing.

Patrick


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[QUOTE=jmoore;175348]What would the Ottomans be using for an official date? Islamic dating back then? Secularization came rather later to Turkey- did they start a new calendar? QUOTE]

They used the Islamic calender until 1925, having made an interim change to the reckoning of the months (from Greek to Gregorian according to Lapin. P.22) in 1917. If anyone wants tgo know the exact date to the day of a Turkishicon document pre-1925 it must be a troublesome business to work it out.

Patrick