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    Posted: 27-May-2005 at 11:31
My personal heroes:


Jet Li
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  Quote Guests Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 27-May-2005 at 12:06

I will begin posting some of our and other nations' national heroes, with one of my favourites, Fatih Sultan Mehmed II Khan (Mehmed II the Conquerer)...

His portraits...

   

Conquest of Istanbul...

  

 
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The beginning of a revolution is in reality the end of a belief - Le Bon
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  Quote Guests Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 29-May-2005 at 13:47

Who is he? Is he really Kanun Sultan Suleyman Khan? But surely, he wasnt blonde.

 
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maybe he dyed it?

Well according to some semi historical games about Chinese power struggles the ancient had purple tendrils fo hair?
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lol no his name is Lek Dukagjini ... he actually fought against the Turks with Scanderbeg but he is revered today especially in northern Albania for making certain laws to guide highlander Albanian society. Hence he has the kanun in his hand or ligj in Albanian. Sorry the pic came out to be so big
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childhood hero
Coanan the Barbarian!!
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Images of Vasil Levski - Bulgarian revolutionary and national heroLevski1.jpg (49502 bytes)
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  Quote Guests Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 30-May-2005 at 10:29

Coanan the Barbarian!!  

Yeah, I was one of his fans. The interesting thing about him was he was a Turanian...
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Coanan the Barbarian!!  

Yeah, I was one of his fans. The interesting thing about him was he was a Turanian...

He was Cymmerian.
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From Cimmeria
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Desert Fox Erwin Rommel


Bismarck


Goethe (looks exactly like my grandfather)
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There are some Hungarian national heroes:

Duke rpd the conqueror of Pannonia:

http://hungaria.org/uploaded/images/20030419-203037.jpg

Saint Stephen, the first king and apostle of Hungary:

http://www.idg.hu/expo/hosok_tere/korona/kep/kr_1.jpg

King Matthias the Just:

http://www.idg.hu/expo/hosok_tere/korona/kep/kk_mat1.jpg

Istvn Szchenyi called the greatest of all hungarians:

http://hungary.ciw.edu/1848-49/images/szech.jpg

Imre Nagy a revolutionary prime minister:
http://www.klubhalo.hu/pic/hatter_nagyimre.jpg



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CONSTANTINOS PALEOLOGOS , LAST GREEK EMPEROR

"Constantinos Paleologos at the battlements, dawn of the 29th May of 1453"
Left painting of the trilogy "Constantinos Paleologos, the last Byzantine Emperor".

"The last moments of Const. Paleologos, emperor of Byzantium"
Central painting of the trilogy "Constantinos Paleologos, the last Byzantine Emperor".

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wow,this pics reminds me Minas Tirith!

 

by the way,he was one of the most open-minded Ottoman Sultans and my favourite:

 

SULTAN II. MAHMUD KHAN / EMPEREUR OTHOMANE

                                         1808-1839



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The first guerilla leader against Nazis in occupied Europe: Serb Chetnik General Dragoljub Draza Mihajlovic
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Originally posted by GENERAL PARMENION

CONSTANTINOS PALEOLOGOS , LAST GREEK EMPEROR




I like this chap as well, and I think he deserves better than those kitschy childrens' book illustrations above:

Here are a few contemporary pictures:





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Turkish Cypriot Hero

 Rauf Denktas (More info on him in the Steppes and Nomads sections under the 'Turkic Heroes')

 Dr.Fazil Kucuk

Pakistani Hero

 Muhammad Ali Jinnah, founder of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan

Eastern Turkistan Hero

 Osman Batur, Freedom fighter
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The modern Chetnik freedom fighters
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