. The world's inhabitants; or, Mankind, animals, and plants; being a popular account of the races and nations of mankind, past and present, and the animals and plants inhabiting the great continents and principal islands. A TORKISH sultanas BEDROOM. CHAPTEE )e $nf)aijitant£J of Cnrfefp in Qsia—$? Asia Minor the of races—Early Greek colonies—Famous lonians—Lydian empire—Croesus—The Lydians Aryans—Syrian domination—The Romans in Asia Minor—The Arabs —The Seljuk Turks—The empire ofRoum—The Crusaders—The Mongols—The Osmanli, or Ottoman Turks—SultanBajazet—Capture of Constanti
. The world's inhabitants; or, Mankind, animals, and plants; being a popular account of the races and nations of mankind, past and present, and the animals and plants inhabiting the great continents and principal islands. A TORKISH sultanas BEDROOM. CHAPTEE )e $nf)aijitant£J of Cnrfefp in Qsia—$? Asia Minor the of races—Early Greek colonies—Famous lonians—Lydian empire—Croesus—The Lydians Aryans—Syrian domination—The Romans in Asia Minor—The Arabs —The Seljuk Turks—The empire ofRoum—The Crusaders—The Mongols—The Osmanli, or Ottoman Turks—SultanBajazet—Capture of Constantinople—Armenian history — Gregory the Illu-minator—The Anatolian Turks—TheYuruks—Turkish agriculturists—Hos-pitality and tolerance—Wives—[Suffer-ings and patience of Anatolians—Mixedpopulation—The Greeks of Asia Minor—Success in business—Primitive com-munities—Levantines-^Lingua Franca—The Armenians—Language—Christian-ity — Armenian Scriptures — ArmenianChiirch-Character of people—Featuresof women—Womens dress—Marriage—The Kurds—Costume—Religion— TUUKISH WOMAN FEEDING BIBDS.(At iiindoio 0/inner court.) AS the great meeting-place ofEast and West, Asia Minornecessarily includes many peo-ple of diverse races. There 472 THE TURKS, ARMENIANS, KURDS, ETC. 473 Mongoloid Turks are face to face with Semitic Arabs ; the Aryan Greekmeets the Circassian, the Armenian, and the Kurd. It is not ^^.^ ^^^^^surprising then that this territory should in the past have themeeting-seldom been united under one rule. It has either been par- ^ ^° °celled out among a number of small states, or has come under the domi-nation of foreign powers, such as the Roman, the Byzantine, and theTurkish. Still more remarkable has been the history of the southernportion of the Turkish dominions in Asia. The representative of Ma-homet to-day controls the remnants of more famous cities than almostany other monarch. Pergamus,
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