{"title":"Kurdish Migration Waves to Rojava (Northern Syria)","authors":"Vladimir Stefanov Chukov","doi":"10.32591/coas.ojsh.0502.01011c","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32591/coas.ojsh.0502.01011c","url":null,"abstract":"This study aims to present the Kurds and the Kurdish migration waves to Rojava (Northern Syria). The accumulation of huge Kurdish masses on the territory of today's Syria is the result of millennial waves of migration caused by the turbulent events in the Middle East. The article analyzes: The Kurdish settlements in Syria; The French colonial authorities; The French colonial policy in the Middle East; The migration flow to Syria. The authors of the in-depth study of modern Syrian Kurdistan, The Question of Syrian Kurdistan – Reality, History, Mythologisation, argue that in the twentieth century there were two main waves of migration to northern Syria. One is expansionist and the other is restrictive. They form the current profile of the Kurdish community in Syria.","PeriodicalId":412867,"journal":{"name":"Open Journal for Studies in History","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132663758","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sacred Forests, Modes of Transmission of Cultural Knowledge and Security Geopolitics of Monarchs and Dignitaries Among the Bamiléké of West Cameroon","authors":"Djiope Popadem Maroti","doi":"10.32591/coas.ojsh.0501.02005p","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32591/coas.ojsh.0501.02005p","url":null,"abstract":"Many authors have written on problematic of natural environment in Bantu’s lands in general and in Bamiléké people in particular. In fact, those “sacred” environments represent for the population in this area, a base of spiritual and cultural life because of a relation existing between natural milieu and divine. Place of highest spiritual connotation, sacred forests are presented in this paper in various forms in accordance with attributes its takes. However, this paper present in a socio historical point of view, the conditions in which natural milieu favoring transmission of knowledge and power to monarchs of Bamilékés kingdoms in western Cameroun.","PeriodicalId":412867,"journal":{"name":"Open Journal for Studies in History","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133862356","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Coin Debasement and the “Great Divergence”: A Research Note","authors":"N. Horesh","doi":"10.32591/coas.ojsh.0501.01001h","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.32591/coas.ojsh.0501.01001h","url":null,"abstract":"Coin debasement as an omnipresent premodern monetary phenomenon has long been recognized. Yet, until recently, debasement was dealt with on a national or at-best continental level. To be precise, it was not sufficiently understood what role seigniorage played in financing early modern polities in comparative terms across Eurasia. Centering on China, particularly at times of war, this research note is the first step toward such an endeavor. It finds that seigniorage was generally lower in China than in early-modern Europe. It also finds greater tolerance for the concurrent circulation of old and new coinage in China. In China, coinage was conceived of in imperial nomenclature as a “public good” of sorts; one that the central government must provide largely at its own expense and even at a net loss in order to facilitate commoners’ livelihood.","PeriodicalId":412867,"journal":{"name":"Open Journal for Studies in History","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123923039","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}