Sentences with phrase «empire by the elimination»

Antiochus Epiphanes then deemed it appropriate to pursue unity of his empire by the elimination of anything different from Hellenistic religion and culture.

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This is not to say that there were no Greeks that profited from the elimination of the Jewish community; it should also be remembered that in 1922 there were Jews in Smyrna that took advantage of the elimination of the Greek community there by the forces of Kemal Ataturk (a chapter in the first genocide of the 20th century, i.e. the destruction of the Christians of the Ottoman Empire and the early Turkish Republic).

Much of the plot takes place against the backdrop of the Ottoman Empire's systematic elimination of the Armenian Christian population, known by later generations as the Armenian Genocide (see backstory).