Someone in Syria, most likely at the national archives in Aleppo, took the pains to photograph the pages of the newspaper الاتحاد العثماني from the early twentieth century. Someone then uploaded these images to the Internet Archive. BUT WHY did they decide to compress the images down to less than 100 KB per page, which makes them completely illegible? WHY????!!!!!

https://archive.org/details/3_20250515_20250515_2344/page/n181

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q124970299

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