Quo Fuit places 7 dated presences for Mehmet Akif Ersoy across 6 places, from 1873 to 1936.
Each one keeps the sentence it was taken from and a link to its source.
Mehmet Akif Ersoy (20 December 1873 – 27 December 1936) was a Turkish poet, writer, academic, politician, and the author of the Turkish National Anthem.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
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1873year
Istanbulattested“Mehmet Akif Ersoy was born Mehmed Ragîf in Istanbul, Ottoman Empire in 1873 to İpekli Tahir Efendi (1826–1888), an Albanian from the village Shushica near Istog, nahiyah of Ipek and Emine Şerife Hanım with Turkish and Uzbek origins from…”source: Wikipedia: Mehmet Akif Ersoy
1873year
Istogattested“Mehmet Akif Ersoy was born Mehmed Ragîf in Istanbul, Ottoman Empire in 1873 to İpekli Tahir Efendi (1826–1888), an Albanian from the village Shushica near Istog, nahiyah of Ipek and Emine Şerife Hanım with Turkish and Uzbek origins from…”source: Wikipedia: Mehmet Akif Ersoy
1873year
Bukharaattested“Mehmet Akif Ersoy was born Mehmed Ragîf in Istanbul, Ottoman Empire in 1873 to İpekli Tahir Efendi (1826–1888), an Albanian from the village Shushica near Istog, nahiyah of Ipek and Emine Şerife Hanım with Turkish and Uzbek origins from…”source: Wikipedia: Mehmet Akif Ersoy
1925year
Cairoattested“Ersoy moved to Cairo in 1925 and taught the Turkish language at a university there during his 11-year stay.”source: Wikipedia: Mehmet Akif Ersoy
1936year
Istanbulattested“He caught malaria during a visit to Lebanon and returned to Turkey shortly before his death in Istanbul in 1936.”source: Wikipedia: Mehmet Akif Ersoy
1936year
Turkeyattested“He caught malaria during a visit to Lebanon and returned to Turkey shortly before his death in Istanbul in 1936.”source: Wikipedia: Mehmet Akif Ersoy
1936year
Lebanonattested“He caught malaria during a visit to Lebanon and returned to Turkey shortly before his death in Istanbul in 1936.”source: Wikipedia: Mehmet Akif Ersoy
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1913year
Istanbulmentioned“He was dismissed from his post at the Darülfünün in Constantinople in late 1913 due to his criticism on how the Ottoman Government acted during the Balkan wars.”source: Wikipedia: Mehmet Akif Ersoy
1913year
Darulfununmentioned“He was dismissed from his post at the Darülfünün in Constantinople in late 1913 due to his criticism on how the Ottoman Government acted during the Balkan wars.”source: Wikipedia: Mehmet Akif Ersoy
19 November 1920exact date
Kastamonumentioned“On 19 November 1920, during a famous speech he gave in Kastamonu's Nasrullah Mosque, he condemned the Treaty of Sèvres, and invited the people to use their faith and guns to fight and wage jihad (holy war) against the Western colonialists.”source: Wikipedia: Mehmet Akif Ersoy
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