effacer

Les Seljoukides installèrent une cour à Damas et effacèrent tous les symboles chiites dans la cité.
The Seljuqs established a court in Damascus and a systematic reversal of Shia inroads in the city.
À ces deux occasions, au niveau politique le plus élevé, c’est-à-dire au niveau supranational, il n’y eut pas d’allié, d’ennemi ou d’acteur neutre ; tous les gouvernements s’effacèrent devant le pouvoir suprême.
On both occasions, at this supreme level of policy, the super-national one, there were no allies, enemies or neutrals; all governments did the bidding of the supreme power.
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