Most of the textbooks consider the period of Murad III (1574-1595) and particularly the murder of the Grand Vizier Sokullu Mehmed Pasha in 1579 as the beginning of the internal decay of the Ottoman Empire. The debacle of Vienna in 1683 the following defeats in the hands of the Holy League and the subsequent Treaty of Karlowitz in 1699 are mostly dealt with in a relatively detailed way, …

A variety of federal environmental laws govern the use of phytotechnology for remediation.

In ch. xxi. 8 whoremongery is considered under the aspect of an injury done to a neighbour.

From the extremity of which fluttered a small banderole or streamer bearing a cross.