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| | The New Yorker: Fact (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23) |
 | | Later, his place was taken by the Holy Roman Emperor in Vienna, and his in turn by the new rulers of the West. |
 | | As late as the seventeenth century, Turkish pashas still ruled in Budapest and Belgrade, Turkish armies were besieging Vienna, and Barbary corsairs were raiding lands as distant as the British Isles and, on one occasion, in 1627, even Iceland. |
 | | The notion of tyrannicide—the justified removal of a tyrant—was not an Islamic innovation; it was familiar in antiquity, among Jews, Greeks, and Romans alike, and those who performed it were often acclaimed as heroes. |
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