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Namık Kemal (by Turkey)

21 December 1840 – 2 December 1888) was an Ottoman democrat[1][2][3], writer, intellectual, reformer, journalist, playwright, and political activist who was influential in the formation of the Young Ottomans and their struggle for governmental reform in the Ottoman Empire during the late Tanzimat period, which would lead to the First Constitutional Era in the Empire in 1876.[4] Kemal was particularly significant for championing the notions of freedom and fatherland[5] in his numerous plays and poems, and his works would have a powerful impact on the establishment of and future reform movements in Turkey, as well as other former Ottoman lands.[6] He is often regarded as being instrumental in redefining Western concepts like natural rights and constitutional government.

Guifre el pilos

Count of La Cerdanya, Barcelona and Girona, throughout his reign he concentrated on reconquering, organizing and repopulating the Catalan lands. Like old catalonia. He reorganized Osona County. It can be said that he was the founder of the dynasty of Catalan kings who would rule Catalonia and Aragon for the next 800 years. Finally, the protagonist of the legend says that he was wounded in the attempt to reconquer Lleida, before the French king Louis I died, put his dying count fingers on his wound, and he marked the four blood bars on a golden shield, telling her she was already flagged. Guifré died in 897, after being wounded in the failed attempt to recapture Lleida.