The Countries of the World: Middle East ; Africa ; EuropeCassell, 1876 |
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... prosperity which could have been spared . Beyrout is the port of Central Syria , and up to the time when transport across the Desert to Baghdad ceased to be of commercial importance , it served for the provinces abutting on the Gulf the ...
... prosperity which could have been spared . Beyrout is the port of Central Syria , and up to the time when transport across the Desert to Baghdad ceased to be of commercial importance , it served for the provinces abutting on the Gulf the ...
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... prosperity of the peasants , not trans- ferring such a large contingent to the New World , is still year by year despatching advanced guards of her intelligent manly sons to the prairies on the other side of the Atlantic . It may be ...
... prosperity of the peasants , not trans- ferring such a large contingent to the New World , is still year by year despatching advanced guards of her intelligent manly sons to the prairies on the other side of the Atlantic . It may be ...
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... prosperity . But the prosperity was hollow , for it seemed to exhaust the energies of the people , and leave them powerless and less fit to engage in the struggle for existence than before . At all events , from that period when the ...
... prosperity . But the prosperity was hollow , for it seemed to exhaust the energies of the people , and leave them powerless and less fit to engage in the struggle for existence than before . At all events , from that period when the ...
Contents
CHAPTER I | 1 |
The Sultans Principal Palace on the Bosphorus | 9 |
TURKEY PROPER | 15 |
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