The Quarterly Review, Volume 238William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) John Murray, 1922 - English literature |
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Page 48
... Persian frontiers . Under the Russian Empire it comprised the Governments of the Black Sea , Kutais , Tiflis , Elisabetpol , Baku , and Erivan , the territories of Batum and Kars , and the districts of Sukhum and Zakatali . It separated ...
... Persian frontiers . Under the Russian Empire it comprised the Governments of the Black Sea , Kutais , Tiflis , Elisabetpol , Baku , and Erivan , the territories of Batum and Kars , and the districts of Sukhum and Zakatali . It separated ...
Page 49
... Persian quarters ; and an attractive little Shiah mosque , its squat and lowly minaret encrusted with green tiles , guards the bridge that spans the Kura at its narrowest point . A long , serrated ridge here rises abruptly and runs ...
... Persian quarters ; and an attractive little Shiah mosque , its squat and lowly minaret encrusted with green tiles , guards the bridge that spans the Kura at its narrowest point . A long , serrated ridge here rises abruptly and runs ...
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... Persia , are well stocked with the products of Tabriz and Ardebil , as well as , at all times , with those of the Caucasus itself , with the gay and attractive rugs of Daghestan and Kuba , of Shemakha and Kazakh , Shirvan and Karabagh ...
... Persia , are well stocked with the products of Tabriz and Ardebil , as well as , at all times , with those of the Caucasus itself , with the gay and attractive rugs of Daghestan and Kuba , of Shemakha and Kazakh , Shirvan and Karabagh ...
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... Persians , and of Nestorians , who wander up from Kurdistan and Urumiah to work as masons , always harbours a certain number of representatives of the mountain races . 6 Let us for a moment take our stand under the trees that front the ...
... Persians , and of Nestorians , who wander up from Kurdistan and Urumiah to work as masons , always harbours a certain number of representatives of the mountain races . 6 Let us for a moment take our stand under the trees that front the ...
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... Persians in 379 A.D. , and was made the capital of Georgia by King Vakhtang Gur- garslan about a hundred years later . According to Transcaucasian standards , it is , therefore , a mere upstart among capitals , and a city of mushroom ...
... Persians in 379 A.D. , and was made the capital of Georgia by King Vakhtang Gur- garslan about a hundred years later . According to Transcaucasian standards , it is , therefore , a mere upstart among capitals , and a city of mushroom ...
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