From there the convoys of deportees were directed south toward Syria and Mesopotamia. ... As the deportees converged toward the main trunk lines leading to Syria, the thousands grew to tens of thousands. Covered with dust, their clothes shredded to rags, their footwear torn to bits, men and women once with names, and homes, and professions were reduced to a frightened mass of despairing humanity about to reach the gateway to the desert. Deportee camps swelled in the towns and cities of northern Syria. ... The deportation routes ended at Deir el-Zor, in the middle of barren desert, the ...

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Stressing the same strict adherence to religious law of the Wahhabi sect, Ikhwan Bedouin abandoned their traditional way of life in the desert and move to an agricultural settlement called a hijra. ... In 1915 Abdul Aziz had various goals: he wanted to take Hail from the Al Rashidi, to extend his control into the northern deserts in present-day Syria and Jordan, and to take over the Hijaz and the Persian Gulf coast. ... They also opposed Abdul Aziz's efforts to extend his influence beyond the Jordanian, Syrian, and Iraqi deserts because of their own imperial interests. ...

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The Armenian Holocaust was the first genocide of the twentieth century; it decimated the Armenian Christians inhabiting Turkey and accounted for almost ten percent of Turkey's population at that time. History books choose to focus on the massacres that took place from 1915 through 1917 during the G...

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