. The war and the Bagdad Railway; the story of Asia Minor and its relation to the present conflict . t^*l-^ PRIMITIVE IRRIGATION IN MESOPOTAMIA. THE PORTAL AT NIGDEH. SELYUK ART. (c. 1223 ) THE STORY OF ASIA MINOR 65 trend is westward, and they gradually spread over alarge region. A branch advances into Asia Minor,driven perhaps by waves behind it. This advance guardbecomes known as the Seljuk Turks, though the namedoes not appear till the eleventh century, when wefind them firmly established in Asia Minor and incontrol of most of it, as far east as Cappadocia andsouth to Cilicia. In 1
. The war and the Bagdad Railway; the story of Asia Minor and its relation to the present conflict . t^*l-^ PRIMITIVE IRRIGATION IN MESOPOTAMIA. THE PORTAL AT NIGDEH. SELYUK ART. (c. 1223 ) THE STORY OF ASIA MINOR 65 trend is westward, and they gradually spread over alarge region. A branch advances into Asia Minor,driven perhaps by waves behind it. This advance guardbecomes known as the Seljuk Turks, though the namedoes not appear till the eleventh century, when wefind them firmly established in Asia Minor and incontrol of most of it, as far east as Cappadocia andsouth to Cilicia. In 1071 they defeat the ByzantineEmperor, and in 1080 take Nicsea which brings themclose to the Bosphorus. The Seljuk Turks had become Moslems as hadother branches of the Turks when coming into con-tact with Arabs and Persians. They thus added tothe strength of Mohammedan control of the find them spreading in all directions until by thethirteenth century there was scarcely any part of theNearer East in which Turks were not to be found,serving as mercenaries or otherwise engaged in theservice of the various caliphates. The sultans ofRum, a
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