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Around the Black Sea

INDEX

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A

Abdul Hamid’s books, 399

cruelty, 156, 169, 172

Adana, massacre at, 169

Albanian Revolution, 383

Alexander the Great, 27, 234

Alexander III, Czar, 285

Alexandropol, city of, 132, 134

Allen, Herbert N., 196, 207

Aloupka, town of, 282

Amastris, city of, 26

American churches in Turkey, 188

College for Girls, 418

Colleges, 446

concessions, 60

schools in Turkey, 415

Americans at Trebizond, 32

Anatolia College, 17

Anatolia, location of, 16

Anatolia Railway, 74

Angel, President, quoted, 193

Antiquities of Georgia, 96

Ararat, Mount, 129, 146

in the Scriptures, 144

Argonauts, 85

story of, 24

Armenia, history of, 154

Russian, 135

Armenian clergymen, 4, 138, 155, 192

emigration, 188

Armenian massacres, 168

monasteries, 138

schools, 197

Armenians, persecutions of, 156

of Tiflis, 111

Army, Turkish, 173

Azov, sea of, 259

B

Baghdad Railway, 74

Baku, city of, 217

Balaklava, battle of, 293, 303

village of, 320

Batoum, city of, 56

Battleship, the stolen, 343

Bible House, 187

Bibles sold in Turkey, 202

Bible, translation of, 185, 202

Bosphorus, beauties of, 10

residences on, 12

Bryce, James, quoted, 105, 144

Bukharest, city of, 363

University of, 367

Bulgarians, famous, 438

C

Camels, Turkish, 48

Caravans, camel, 47

Cardigan, Earl of, 306

Carmen Sylva, 358

Carol, King of Roumania, 354

Caspian oil fields, 222

Sea, peculiarities of, 217

Catherine, the Great, 265

Caucasus, the, 85

Caucasus Railways, 99

Cherigan Palace, burned, 11

Chester, Admiral, 61

Christ, relics of, 96, 140

Christian soldiers in Turkey, 173

Cimmerians, the, 269, 271

Circassians, the, 266

Circassian beauties, 256

costumes, 257

Clement, Pope, 323

Clergymen, Armenian, 4, 138

Turkish, 4

Coal deposits, 68

Colchis, ancient, 56, 85

Colleges, American, 17, 36, 41, 176, 198, 430, 444

Concessions, railway, 60

Congregations, American, 188

Conquests, Russian, 266

Constantinople, libraries of, 395

schools of, 388

Cossack capital, the, 258

country, the, 254

Cossacks, history of, 259

Costumes, Georgian, 122

Cotton, culture of, 83

Crawford, Dr. L. S., 33, 161, 191

Crimea, the, 265

flowers of, 269

history of, 271

scenery of, 263, 279

Crimean War, 293

Crim Tartars, the, 270

Customs, Circassian, 257

Georgian, 125

Customs, Tartar, 229

Turkish, 5

D

Daghestan, 228

customs of, 230

history of, 233

railways of, 230

wars of, 241

wheat fields of, 230

Dariel Pass in Caucasus, 250

Dashkoff, Prince, 121, 282

Derbent, city of, 239, 243

Dervishes, 4

Diana, home of, 26

Diogenes, birth place of, 26

E

Eden, Garden of, 79

Education in Germany, 150

in Roumania, 367

in Russia, 341

in Turkey, 42, 385

Elburz, Mount, 255

Elizabeth, Queen of Roumania, 356

Emancipation of Turkish women, 411

Emigration, Armenian, 188

from Turkey, 166

Etchmiadzin, city of, 138

Erivan, city of, 138

Erzroom, city of, 135

mission, 36

Euphrates College, 176

F

Farming in Caucasus, 214, 253

in southern Russia, 262

Finances of American missions, 190

Fire worshippers, 238

of Persia, 220

Flour mills, floating, 108

Fruit in Caucasus, 215

G

Gates, Caleb F., 177, 181, 436

Georgia, capital of, 95

conquest of, 98

Georgian costumes, 122

Georgians, origin of, 95

German interference, 71

German, Russo-, agreement, 71

Germans in Caucasus, 118

in Daghestan, 232

Gypsies of Roumania, 349, 368

H

Halideh Salih, 417

Hamlin, Dr. Cyrus, 209, 433

Harpoot, city of, 177

mission of, 177

Hay, Colonel John, 376

Heavy Brigade, charge of, 305

Herbert N. Allen, 196, 207

Hercules, story of, 25

Honey poison, 25

Hoskins, Rev. Franklin P., 205

Hospital at Erzroom, 36

Hospitals, American, 18, 36, 38, 149

Howard, John, grave of, 340

I

Immigration into Turkey, 84

Inkerman, battle of, 322

village of, 322

Irrigation in Mesopotamia, 78

J

Jackson, A. V. Williams, 234

Jews of Crimea, 274

of Odessa, 329

of Roumania, 371

in Turkey, 84, 174

K

Karaim sect of Jews, 275

Kasbek, Mount, 255

Kertch, city of, 272

Kherson, city of, 339

Koran has not been translated, 204

Kurds, the, 160

L

Lazis, customs of, 8, 53

Librarian of St. Sophia, 405

Libraries of Constantinople, 395

Licorice root, 15

Light Brigade, charge of, 304

Livadia, Palace of, 268, 285

M

Mahmoud Bey, 386

Manisson Pass, 250

Manuscripts at St. Sophia, 403

Marsovan mission, 16

Massacres of 1895, 161

Massacres of 1909, 168

Masterson, American Consul, 66

Mazeppa, original of, 244

Medical work in Turkey, 20, 36, 38, 149

Mesopotamia, irrigation of, 78

Milesians, origin of, 272

Mineral deposits, 68

Minerals in Asia Minor, 65

in the Caucasus, 89

Mission at Erzroom, 30

at Trebizond, 33

Missions, American, 16, 36, 38, 149, 176, 185

Missionary text books, 206

Missionaries, American, 185

Monasteries, Armenian, 138

Monuments, Crimea, 322

Moslem priests, 6

religious rules, 196

Mountains, Caucasus, 88, 244, 254

Mtskheta, city of, 95

Museum, Tiflis, 109

Mythology, Black Sea, 22

in Caucasus, 85

N

Nakhikheban, village of, 129, 142

Nightingale, Florence, 311

Nikolaieff, city of, 335

Noah, grave of, 142

landing place of, 142

Nobel, Alfred, at Baku, 223

O

Odessa, city of, 325

Jews of, 329

Officials, Russian, 117

Oil fields, Caspian, 222

P

Passengers on Black Sea steamers, 3

Passes through Caucasus, 250

Patrick, Dr. Mary Mills, 415, 418

Peasants, Russian, 263

Persian quarter of Tiflis, 110, 107

Petroleum at Baku, 222

Politics in Caucasus, 116

Priests, Moslem, 192

Printing offices, mission, 201

Prometheus, story of, 86

Publications, American, 207

missionary, 201

R

Railway concessions, 60

to Mount Ararat, 131

Baghdad, 74

Railways in Asia Minor, 61

of the Caucasus, 90, 99, 102, 214, 252

of Daghestan, 230

Turkish, 74

of Roumania, 377

Ramsey, Sir William, quoted, 415

Ravndal, American Consul, 169

Red Cross work in Turkey, 169

Refineries, oil, at Baku, 226

Reforms in Turkey, 442

Religions of Caucasus, 245

Resorts, seashore, in Russia, 277

Revolution in Caucasus, 100

in Turkey, 379

Riggs, Dr. Elias, 202, 208

Rizeh, town of, 50

Revolution, Russian, 343

Robert, Christopher, 432

Robert College, 430

Rostov on the Don, 258

Russian policy in Caucasus, 132

Russian policy in Turkey, 69

Russians in Daghestan, 249

in Tiflis, 109

Roumania, History of, 350

kingdom of, 348

S

Samsoun, city of, 13

Schools, American, 17, 36, 38, 149, 176, 198, 415, 430, 440

Mohammedan, 393

of Russia, 341

Turkish, 43, 190, 383

Scenery, Black Sea, 23, 50

of Crimea, 268, 279

Scenes on Black Sea steamers, 9

Schamyl, Prince of Daghestan, 242

Schauffler, Rev. Dr., 211

Sevastopol, cemeteries of, 301

city of, 292

harbour of, 297

monuments of, 300

siege of, 294

Sheikh-ul-Islam, 175

Sinub, port of, 26

Sivas, city of, 38

mission of, 38

Smith, Rev. Ely, 204

Soldiers in Caucasus, 116

St. George, Monastery of, 321

St. Gregory, the Enlightener, 138

St. Sophia, library of, 401

Steamers on the Black Sea, 3

Straus, Oscar S., 171, 395

T

Tamara, Queen, 95, 99

Tamerlane, 240

Tartar characteristics, 229, 270

Tartars of Tiflis, 111

Teachers, American, 188

Ten Thousand, retreat of the, 32

Text books, missionary, 206

Theodosia, port of, 271

Tiflis, city of, 102, 105

Tigris valley, 78

Timour the Tartar, 240

Tobacco, Turkish, 15

Trade, American, 153

Translations of Bible, 202

Trebizond, city of, 29, 47

massacre at, 161

Troglodytes, ancient, 269, 323

Turkey, new régime in, 379, 381

Turkish customs, 5, 51

women, 411

U

University of Bukharest, 367

Ottoman Imperial, 388

V

Valley of the Don, 259

Van Dyke, Rev. Dr., 205

Van, city of, 147

lake, 66, 148

mission of, 149

Viceroy’s palace at Tiflis, 120

Vladikavkas, city of, 248

W

Watering places, Russian, 277

Wheat fields of Daghestan, 230

Wheeler, Dr. Crosby H., 177

Willcocks, Sir William, 78

Women, American college for, 416

Women, education of, 424

Turkish, 411

Woronzoff palace, 282

Prince, 326

X

Xenophon’s Retreat, 32

Y

Yalta, city of, 278

Young Turk Party, 379, 412

Z

Zoroaster and fire worshippers, 230, 238

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