Persia past and present; a book of travel and research, with more than two hundred illustrations and a map . The Mi( HAKLiH Bkiouk uvkk thk Kuka at Tiklis. TllJ. A.^lAi^ Mt,>l<.l ,V1, lli-Ll,-. CHAPTER IITIFLIS, THE CAPITAL OF TRANSCAUCASIA Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and the dwellers in Mesopotamia, andin Judsea, and Cappadocia, in Pontus, and Asia. — New Testament, Acts 2. 9. TiPLis is a combination of Orient and Occident. It is oneof those cities in which Western civilization has been weldedon to Eastern custom, but the signs of the joining will neverdisappear. Its lan
Persia past and present; a book of travel and research, with more than two hundred illustrations and a map . The Mi( HAKLiH Bkiouk uvkk thk Kuka at Tiklis. TllJ. A.^lAi^ Mt,>l<.l ,V1, lli-Ll,-. CHAPTER IITIFLIS, THE CAPITAL OF TRANSCAUCASIA Parthians, and Medes, and Elamites, and the dwellers in Mesopotamia, andin Judsea, and Cappadocia, in Pontus, and Asia. — New Testament, Acts 2. 9. TiPLis is a combination of Orient and Occident. It is oneof those cities in which Western civilization has been weldedon to Eastern custom, but the signs of the joining will neverdisappear. Its languages are as many as those at the gift oftongues at Pentecost, and its types are as multifarious as aunion of ancient and modern life can bring together. Alongits crowded thoroughfares the sheepskin-clad dweller of theCaucasus rubs elbows with the Armenian, Georgian, Persian,Kurd, Turk, and Tartar, or moves side by side with the Euro-pean dressed in broadcloth. The ever shifting groups andconstantly changing colors rival a kaleidoscope in winding alleys of the native quarters, the mazes of thebazaars, and the crowded passages between
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