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 . Plate II—KAfcAK RUG. Plate III—GUENJE RUG 188 CAUCASIAN AND TURKISH RUGS the west by the Black Sea. The Caucasus Mountains, seven hundredand fifty miles long, and loftier than the Alps, cross the country fromnorthwest to southeast, separating Northern Caucasia from Trans-caucasia. The capital and principal rug market i
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 . Plate II—KAfcAK RUG. Plate III—GUENJE RUG 188 CAUCASIAN AND TURKISH RUGS the west by the Black Sea. The Caucasus Mountains, seven hundredand fifty miles long, and loftier than the Alps, cross the country fromnorthwest to southeast, separating Northern Caucasia from Trans-caucasia. The capital and principal rug market is Tifiis. A railwaysix hundred and twenty-one miles long connects Batum on the BlackSea with Baku on the Caspian Sea, via Tifiis. Nowhere else in theworld is there such a confusion of races and languages, the numberof dialects being estimated at sixty-eight. A majority of the peoplebelong to the Russian Church, though Mohammedans are many. Thearea of the Caucasus is three and one-half times that of New YorkState, and the population about the same. The Russians firstentered the Caucasus in 1770, and by 1800 had acquired practicallyall of Northern Caucasia. In 1813, having conquered Persia in a two years war instigatedby France, the Russians acquired Daghestan, Shirvan, Baku and theright of
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