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Sultan Abdu'l- 'Aziz, who with Nasiri'd- Din Shah was the author of the calamities heaped upon Baha'u'llah, and was himself responsible for three decrees of banishment against the Prophet; who had been stigmatized, in the Kitab- i- Aqdas, as occupying the "throne of tyranny," and whose fall had been prophesied in the Lawh- i- Fu'ad, was deposed in consequence of a palace revolution, was condemned by a fatva (sentence) of the Mufti in his own capital, was four days later assassinated (1876), and was succeeded by a nephew who was declared to be an imbecile. The war of 1877- 78 emancipated eleven million people from the Turkish yoke; Adrianople was occupied by the Russian forces; the empire itself was dissolved as a result of the war of 1914- 18; the Sultanate was abolished; a republic was proclaimed; and a rulership that had endured above six centuries was ended.
(225:1)
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