If the lives of men can be measured in terms of years, ideologies in decades, and nations in centuries, then the unit measuring civilizations, born of the interaction among peoples, would be the millennium.
Abdelaziz BouteflikaAbout author
- Author's profession: Statesman
- Nationality: algerian
- Born: March 2, 1937
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