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sultan
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A shepherd had a faithful dog, called Sultan, who had grown very old, and had lost all his teeth.
A shepherd had a faithful dog, called Sultan, who was grown very old, and had lost all his teeth.
On a fine summer morning he was lying as usual half asleep in the little garden in front of the cottage when the sultan's daughter came riding by.
Once the Sultan ruled over what today is Turkey.
If I were a sultan, I'd have three wives!
Movie subtitles
The sultan of MaIindi chose a giraffe to send.
By the orders of the Sultan, they searched for the body of Constantin.
Sultan Saladin.
The Patriarch asked the Sultan Saladin To put his stamp on the decision of the ecclesiastical court!
Behold the Sultan, Saladin the Conqueror.
Make way for Saladin, Sultan of Egypt!
Saladin, Sultan of Islam. Let him see the might.
Saladin the Conqueror, Sultan of Islam.
Milord Sultan.
A sharp blade, my Lord Sultan.
From you, Sultan of Islam, I accept only war.
Oh, my Sultan, why do I see you in these garments of the Christians?
The Sultan is leaving.
My Lord Sultan, you can save him.
And as for the madman, our great sultan Jaffar is merciful. Only his head.
The maddest of all the madmen that ever lived in the sultan's palace.
Why, the palace of the sultan, children of ignorance.
Don't you know that the sultan has the greatest collection of toys in the world?
The sultan is an old man, and old men are like children.
I will go to my sister, who's married to he sultan of Samarkand.
Great sultan, I speak the truth. My eyes bear witness.
Listen, great sultan, I know the truth.
She escaped from the harem of the sultan at the risk of her life.
If I wanted to make a deal with the Sultan of Morocco I'd come dressed like a dervish.
Guard him well, Sultan. All right?
Good night, Sultan. Good night.
You are the sultan of these tartar brigands?
I used to sing a ballad concerning the fate of the fair Zuleika. daughter of the sultan. who was taken hostage on the Crusades.
You remember Sultan?
I was afraid in my dark bedroom but when I heard you riding Sultan home, I went to bed.
Turkish Sultan wrote us that he cut off Nasreddin's head.
That wouldn't do! The Turkish sultan had already cut off my head.
Indeed, the Sultan wrote us that he had cut of the head of this bum.
I'll preach to the sultan.
You tried to convert the sultan.
Elsa, this exquisite flower, Gentle lover, Preparing a dance for your young concubine of the Sultan.
They're bringing women prisoners back as slaves from the coasts of Sicily and Portugal. to serve the Sultan's pleasure.
Do you know the poems of Sultan Selim?
Which Sultan Selim?
The great Sultan's encampment.
The Sultan of Egypt would be pleased.
I can serve both the Sultan and Malek el Adil.
News and current affairs
But the death of Sultan, at 86, marks the beginning of a critical period of domestic and foreign uncertainty for the Kingdom.
After all, Sultan's half-brother, King Abdullah, 87, is still hospitalized in Riyadh, following a major operation last month.
Sultan had already been dead - politically, that is - for the last three years; indeed, since June 2011, when he left for New York for medical treatment, young Saudis speculated on numerous Web sites that this was also literally the case.
But, as Sultan's health deteriorated, Abdullah bypassed his own creation and appointed Prince Naif, the interior minister, as a second deputy.
Sultan secured the defense ministry for his son Khaled, and brought back Khaled's notorious brother, Bandar to head the Intelligence Security Council.
And why, despite international pressure and domestic desire, did he not appoint a successor to the ailing Crown Prince Sultan, for the tradition of the Saudi kings is to have not only the direct but the second in line to the throne known?
But Naif (age 77), his full brothers - including Sultan (age 82) - and their supporters within the Wahhabi establishment appear too entrenched to allow that to happen.
Last year, Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah, worried by Shi'a expansionism, was persuaded by Prince Bandar bin Sultan, the head of his National Security Council, to coordinate policy with Israel to counter Iran's growing influence.
The call for Saddam Hussein's resignation by Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahayan of the UAE before the US invasion suggests that at least some Arab leaders are prepared to welcome far-reaching change in their region.
A strong current of liberalism appeared in the late nineteenth century in Ottoman Syria in response to the religious despotism of Sultan Abdulhamid.
Indeed, following Fahd's death, Sudeiri power was reduced significantly, with only Crown Princes Sultan and Naif holding key roles.
After Sultan (who served for decades as Minister of Defense) died in October 2011, Abdullah froze the Allegiance Council.
LONDON - The contrast between the deaths, within two days of each other, of Libya's Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi and Saudi Crown Prince Sultan bin Abdel Aziz is one of terminal buffoonery versus decadent gerontocracy.
The direction the country will take in the longer term can best be assessed by whom Abdullah chooses to name as the successor to Prince Sultan, Naif's chief ally who has already been named Abdullah's heir.
The first Turkish ruler to reign over the Ecumenical Patriarchate was Mehmed II, the Ottoman Sultan who conquered Constantinople in 1453.
The information vacuum was reminiscent of the secrecy surrounding the deaths of Stalin and Mao, and the practice in the Ottoman empire of keeping the sultan's death a secret for weeks until the succession was settled.