At least there are limits on how many bugs the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) lets you unknowingly eat. The FDAâs Defect Levels Handbook lays it all out. Staples like broccoli, canned tomatoes, and hops readily contain âinsect fragmentsââheads, thoraxes, and legsâand even whole insects.
Serbian troops and Montenegrin troops laid siege to Scutari (ShkodÃ«r) in northern Albania beginning on October 8, 1912. Albanian nationalists led by Ismail Kemal Bey (Ismail Qemal Bej) proclaimed the independence of Albania from the Ottoman Empire in the port of Valona (VlorÃ«) on November 28, 1912. Serbian troops occupied DurrÃ«s on November 30, 1912.
It was an Islamic empire--as the Byzantine had been a Christian empire--that was literally the private holding of the Osmanli family from whom the concept of the Ottoman state could not be separated. The ruling house and the empire's civil and military ruling class were considered Ottomans.ecovery of Ottoman prestige was slow, but Anatolia was gradually reabsorbed, and in the 1420s Ottoman power had revived sufficiently to undertake fresh campaigns in Greece. Aside from scattered outposts in Greece, all that remained of the Byzantine Empire was its capital, Constantinople.