Decorative textiles; an illustrated book on coverings for furniture, walls and floors, including damasks, brocades and velvets, tapestries, laces, embroideries, chintzes, cretonnes, drapery and furniture trimmings, wall papers, carpets and rugs, tooled and illuminated leathers . old of the ancient Roman Empire, Constantinople, whichsince then has been Mohammedan instead of Christian. By 1840 the power of the Turkish Empire had so declined thatonly the interference of the Quadruple Alliance prevented its down-fall. Again in 1853, and still again in 1878, the European powersintervened to prevent
Decorative textiles; an illustrated book on coverings for furniture, walls and floors, including damasks, brocades and velvets, tapestries, laces, embroideries, chintzes, cretonnes, drapery and furniture trimmings, wall papers, carpets and rugs, tooled and illuminated leathers . old of the ancient Roman Empire, Constantinople, whichsince then has been Mohammedan instead of Christian. By 1840 the power of the Turkish Empire had so declined thatonly the interference of the Quadruple Alliance prevented its down-fall. Again in 1853, and still again in 1878, the European powersintervened to prevent the Russians from crushing Turkey. Egypt,formerly tributary to Turkey, is now British, having been acquiredin order to control the Suez Canal and the route to India. Amongother territories, the control of which had been taken from Turkeyby the European powers, are Bulgaria, Bosnia, Crete and Turkish Empire is a medley of races and of religions, the dom-inant Turks being much in the minority, and not over half of the popu-lation being Mohammedan. Other important races are the Arabs,Armenians, Kurds, Greeks, Jews, Slavs, Albanians. The Caucasus might be described as a Russian isthmus connect-ing Europe and Asia, bounded on the east by the Caspian Sea and on 186. Plate I—AN ESPECIALLY FINE LADIK RUG187
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