INDEX
Reading edition
“Aaron the Just,” 418
Abbasside Caliphate, the, 172
Abd-el-Kader, Algerian ruler, 249
Abd-er-Rahman I, 473
Abdul Hamid I, Sultan, 110, 159
Abdul Hamid II, Sultan, 50, 110, 268
Abgar, King, 285, 296
Abraham, Patriarch, 253, 275, 294
Abydas, Strait of, 77
Abyssinia, 312
Achilles, Ashes of, 36
Adadinari IV, 386
Adana, commercial center, 197
Aegean Sea, 90
Afium-Kara-Hissar, 122
Agamemnon, “King of Men,” 87
Agostino, Padre, 263
Aimée Dubuc de Rivery, 110
Albertus Magnus, 6
Alcæus, 105
Aleppo, 255, 263
Alexander I, of Russia, 78
Alexander the Great, 27, 46, 78, 83, 194, 217, 400
Alexandria, 289
Alfold, great central plain of Hungary, 19
Ali, first legitimate Caliph, 445
Al-Khader, 260
Allah, 237
Al-Mamun, Caliph, 420
Al-Mansur, founder of Bagdad, 409
Ameghino, Dr., 453
America, does not know or care about the truth about Turkey, 211
Ammianus Marcellinus, 297
Amru, 316
Amuita, Queen, 488
Anadoli Kavak, 45
Anathema Maran-atha, 327
Anatolia, 183
life of the Osmanlis, 121
ruins of, 106
Anatolian Railway, 99, 121, 157
Anazarbas, 199
Andrae, Dr. Walter, 379
Angel de Villarubbia, Fra, 292
Anglo-French press, hostile to Bagdad railway, 166
Antakia, 255
Anthimos VII, Œcumenical Patriarch, 336
“Antioch the Beautiful,” 218, 255, 289
Antipater, 201
“Apostle and Proto-Martyr among Women,” 172
“Apostle of the Gentiles,” St. Paul, 202
Arabian horses, 441
Arabians, life of the, 442
Arab robbers, protection against, 266
Aracca, the Erech of Scripture, 461
Aramaic language, 272
Aratus, 201
Archimedes, 201
Argonauts, 42
Argos, 44
Arianism, 232
Aristarchus of Samothrace, 106
Aristotle, 83
Armenian question, 208
Armenians, business ability of, 271
massacre of 1909, 205
responsible in great part for massacres, 207
Arrians, 101, 305
Artemidorus, 201
Ashbelkala, 380
Ashurnasirpal III, 380
Asia Minor, 183
great trouble of, 149
rich in natural resources, 184
Aspasia, wife of Pericles, 104
Asshur, city of, 294
“Association Laws,” 292
Assuerus, King, 353
Asur, builder of Nineveh, 345, 379
Assyrian Empire, 347
Astronomy, foundations and practice of, by Babylonians, 501
Asurbanipal, the Grand Monarch of Assyria, 353
“A Thousand Nights and a Night,” 261
Attica, 104
Attila, 23
Augustine of Hippo, 369
Augustus, Emperor, 11
Aurelian, Emperor, 217
Babil, mound of, 475, 477
Babylon, 471–508
bird’s-eye view of desolation of, 506
descriptions of, by ancient writers, 483
great wall of, 483
hanging gardens of, 282, 494
present day, 486
tower of, 491
Bagdad, 41, 260, 402–436
ancient glories of, 412
bazaars of, 432
Carmelite priests of, 403
etymological names of, 410
fall of, 425
founding of, 409
modern, 427
periodically visited by the plague, 431
population one-fourth Jewish, 432
the future of, 435
the women of, 432
Bagdad railway, 151
aim and purpose of, 168
completion of, held up by World War, 370
Germany gets concession for, 158
meeting of Czar and Kaiser in 1910 in regard to, 164
source of far-reaching political cataclysm, 169
splendidly built, 167
tunnels of the, 255
Balkan peninsula, 22
peoples of, hated one another, more than the Turks, 22
Barbarossa, Frederick, 78, 121
Barmecides, Slaughter of the, 419
Barnabas, 171
Basra, 264
Bayazid I, Sultan, 46
Bazaars of Bagdad, 432
Beaconsfield, Earl of, 63
Beames, William, 265
Bedouins, 268
life of, 442
Beirut, 310
Beith Allah, house of God, 235
Belgrade, 19
Belus, first astronomer, 501
Benjamin of Tudela, 414, 480
Berosus, priest of Bel, 348
Berlin, 1
Bessarion, Cardinal, 335
Bethsabee, 275
Bianca Capello, 110
Bilejik, 122
Bir, 281
Birs-Nimrud, 477
Black Forest, 5
Black Obelisk of Salmanasar II, 200
Black Sea, 30
Black Stone, worshiped by Mohammedans, 235
“Blue Mosque,” 175
Bohadin, 417
Borsippa, 480
Bosphorus, 161
plan for tunnel under, 166
proposed bridge over, 166
Bossuet of Meaux, 369
Botta, Paul Emil, 349
Bourse, the, 163
Bozanti Khan, 188
Bralia, 31
Bréau, Quaterfages de, 456
Bronze Horses of Lysippus, 58
Bruin, Cornelius de, 358
Brusa, 94
Budapest, 18
Bukcovitz, Stephen, 114
Bukharest, city of, 29
Bulgar Dagh, the, 189
Burckhardt, discovers black basaltic block, 275
Burnouf, Eugène, 362
Byron, Lord, 43
Byzantine liturgy, 313
Byzantines, 305
Byzas, son of Neptune, 67
Cæsaropapism, 326
Caetani, Prince, 466
Caliphs, triumphs of the, 281
Callicolone, 87
Calmet, Dam, the Benedictine, 459
Calycadnus, the, 191
Camels, trains of, 185
Canals,
Danube-Elbe, 34
Danube-Oder, 34
Danube-Salonica, 34
Ludwig, 33
Suez, 153
Canon law of Mohammedanism, 244
Cantacuzenos, introduces the Osmanlis into Europe, 113
Capistrau, St. John, 20
Capuchins, the, 291
Caravans, 186
kept in communication with friends by homing pigeons, 267
protection against Arab robbers, 266
trade, 264
Carchemish, the, 276, 282
Carmelite priests, of Bagdad, 403
Cassandra, 91
Castle of Simeon, 256
Catherine de Medici, 110
Catherine II, of Russia, 61, 383
Caulaincourt, French Ambassador, 79
Cerularius, Michael, 325
Chalcedon, 97
Chaldean church, 307
Champollion, Jean François, 356
Chansans de Geste, untruths in, concerning Mohammedanism, 222
Chardin, Jean, 358
Charlemagne, 10, 324
Chateaubriand, 52
Chesney, Colonel, 152
Chilat, 298
Chosroes I, 194, 281, 287
Christianity,
in relation to Mohammedanism, 247
need of change of attitude of the West toward the East, 251
Chrysopolis, the golden city, 96
Chrysostom, St. John, 71
Churches of the East, 303–340
Church of Holy Wisdom, 56
Cicero, 171
Cilician Plain, or Cilicea Campestris, 189
population of, 198
the Garden of Eden, 214
three decisive battles of the world fought on, 194
Citadel, at Aleppo, 273
“City of Delight,” the, 29
“City of the Blind,” the, 97
“City of the Saints,” Bagdad, 260
Cleopatra, 204
Code of Hammurabi, 345, 364, 504
Coffee, great beverage of the Moslems, 179
Coffeehouse, Oriental, 181
Columbus, 452
Comnena, Princess Anna, 72
Conquest of Constantinople, 328
Constantine IX, Emperor, 325
Constantine Paleologus, 68
Constantine Porphyrogenitus, 414
Constantine the Great, 68, 321
Constantinople, 51
people of, 65
Constanza, 37
Consul Lirius, 84
Coptic church, 312
Copts, of Egypt, 312
Corinth, 217
Cos, 105
Council of Florence, 327
Crassus, 297
Creation, one of the oldest accounts of, discovered, 462
Crescent and the Cross, 27
Crimean War, 99
Crœsus, King of Lydia, 184
Cross and the Crescent, 27
Crusaders,
castles built by, 257
in Phrygia and Lycaonia, 187
in the footsteps of the, 171
route of the, 257
Crusade, Fourth, 327
time has come for a new but different, 252
Cunaxa, battle of, 375
Cyaxares, 345
Cydnus, 203
Cydnus, the, 190
Cyrus, Bishop, 297
Cyrus the Great, 433
army of, 171
Cyrus the Younger, 281
Dacia, 26
Dacians, the, 30
Damascus, 289, 313
Damoclean sword, 331
Dandolo, Henricus, 68
Dante Alighieri, 247, 295
Danube, 4, 31
Darius, 194, 281
Darius Hystaspes, 31
“Dates of Akkad,” 472
Dati, Leonardo, 457
David, King, 275
Dawson, J. W., 463
Debora, nurse of Rebecca, 298
Deggendorf, 8
De Lesseps, and the Suez Canal, 165
Delitzsch, Friedrich, 363, 369, 448
Delta of the Nile, 317
Dervishes,
dancing or whirling, 173
howling, 96
Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft, 387
Devil’s Wall, 9
Diana, Temple of, 217
Diering, Professor, on the Germans, 168
Diocletian, 100
Diodorus Siculus, 201, 483
Dionysides, 201
Dioscur, Patriarch of Alexandria, 315
Disraeli, and the Suez Canal, 153
Djerabis, 282
“Doctrine of Addai,” 286
Dominican Sisters of the Presentation of Tours, 308
Dominicans of Mosul, 307
Drang nach osten, Trend toward the East, 155
Duke Leopold, of Austria, 10
Dunkelboden, 7
Earthquakes, 218
Eastern Churches, 303–340
reunion with the Mother Church, 334
Edessa, 284
legend connected with, 284
school of, 297
Egyptian monophysites, 312
Eldred, John, 265, 478
El Farruch, Earth-Divider, 74
Elgin, Lord, 57
Endocia, Empress, 257
Enoch, the Hermes Trismegistes of the Orientals, 284
Entente Cordiale, 165
Ephesus, 103
Epicureans, 201
Ermeni Millet, 318
Eski Bagdad, old Bagdad, 398
Eski-Shehr, 122
Etchimiadzin, monastery of, 311
Eudocea, Empress, 71
Euphrates, the, 278, 488
Eusebius of Cæsarea, 285
Eutyches, 309
Eutychianism, 309
Euxine Sea, 5, 35
Father Damien, 247
“Father of Medicine,” 105
Fatihah, first chapter of the Koran, 96
Feringees, 319
Figueroa, Don Garcia de Sylva y, 357
Fourth Crusade, 327
Fra Diavolo, 195, 196
Fragistan-Europe, 319
France, as a protector of Turkey, 160
fate of the French railway in Near East, 160
has always encouraged scientific research, 349
not willing to give recommendations to Bagdad railway project, 163
on friendly terms with Ottoman Government, 155
Franciscan friars, 262
Francis I, of France, 155
Frankish States, 328
Fra Oderic of Pordenone, 39
Galambocz, 24
Galata, 65
Galatz, 31
Garden of Eden, 214
location of, 447
motoring in the, 437
one of the oldest accounts of creation discovered, 462
Gargar, valley of, 298
Genghis Kahn, 113
Germans, determined to build Bagdad railway unaided, 166
Germany, dream of world power in the East, 155
gets concession for Bagdad railway, 158
Ghazzali, 417
Girgenti, ruins of, 475
Gisdhubar, 281
Giurgero, 29
Gladstone, William, 64
Glaser, E, 465
Glorietta of Schönbrunn, 12
Godefroy de Bouillon, 121
Golden Fleece, 44
Golden Horn, 47
Gordianus III, 297
Goths, the, 217
Gourea, Antonio de, 357
“Granary of Northern Syria,” 278
Grand Opera House, of Paris, 55
“Great Assassin,” Abdul Hamid, 159
Great Britain and the Gold Coast, 250
attitude toward Bagdad railway, 160
attitude toward Turks, 159
does not wish to know the truth about Turkey, 211
fear of protectorate over Turkey by Teutonic powers, 162
not willing to give recommendation to Bagdad railway project, 163
Great Cemetery, 96
Great Chimu, 497
“Great Idea,” 332
“Great Schism,” 325
Great Sweet Water, 48
Great Wall of China, 483
Greece, people of, in ancient days, 274
Greeks, business ability of, 271
Gregorians, 310
Gregory of Nyssa, 369
Grotefend, Georg Friederich, 360
Hadj, annual pilgrimage to Mecca, 244
Haidar Pasha, military hospital, 98
Hainburg, 14
Halicarnasus, 217
Halil Halid, the Anatolian, 210
Hamme, Frère Lieven de, 263
Hammurabi, Code of, 345
Hanging gardens of Babylon, 282, 494
Hannibal, 94
Haran, city of, 293
Harem, explanation of, and meaning, 126–129
Haremlik, 126
Harnack, Professor, 338
Harpies, 44
Harum-al-Rashid, 46, 417
Hazret, Mevlana, 175
Hebron, 275
Hedja railroad, 267
Hellespont, the Thacian, 77
Heraclius, 194, 281
Herbert, Thomas, 358
Hergenroether, Cardinal, 229
Herodotus, 281, 347, 488
Hieron, city of, 46
Higden, Ralph, the Benedictine, 449
Hillah, village of, 349, 471
Hincks, Edward, 362
Hipparchus of Nicæa, 105, 502
Hippocrates, 105
Hippodrome, in Constantinople, 58
Hissarlik, hill of, 86
Hittites, language of undecipherable as yet, 276
third great empire with Egypt and Babylonia, 275
Hogarth, David G., on the Armenian question, 208
Holy City of Jerusalem, 187
Holy Directing Synod, 331
Homer, 36, 81
Hommel, F., 465
Howling Dervishes, 96
Hudibras, 450
Huet, Pierre Daniel, 460
Hugo, Victor, on the Danube, 5
Hulagu Khan, 426
Hunyady Janos, 20
Ibrahim, 117
Iconium, now Konia, 122, 151
Iconoclasts, doctrine of, 102
Ida, 87
Iliad and Odyssey, 81
Illock, 20
Imam, the, 236
Iman Dura, town of, 397
Imperial Museum of Constantinople, 273
Independent Church of the Monastery of Mount Sinai, 331
Indicopleustes, 450
International Commission, for regulation of traffic, 33
Io, priestess of Hera at Argos, 45
Ionia, 104
Irene, Empress, 102
Iron gate, 26
Irrigation, of Babylon, 499
Isaac, 295
Ishtar gate, 494
Islam, creed of, 227
liberal policy of, 116
not opposed to influence of foreign science, law or theology, 243
past and present, 220
“the lay religion par excellence,” 233
Island of Achilles, 36
Ismid, 100
Italy, recent campaigns in Tripoli, 250
Jacobites, 309
Jacob, Patriarch, 284
Janissaries, corps of, 114
Jappa, Gate of Jerusalem, 262
Jason, 44
Jebel Hamrin, 389
Jebel Makhul, 389
Jebel Sinjar, 300
Jelal-ed-din-Rumi, tomb of, 172
Jenghiz Khan, 216
Jerablus, 278
Jerusalem, 263
Jinn, land of the, 261
Joachim III, Œcumenical Patriarch, 334
Joan of Arc, 247
Joseph II, Emperor of Austria, 61
Joseph of Burgos, Fra, 292
Judas Iscariot, 295
Julian, the Apostate, 10
Julius Cæsar, 84
Justinian, 321
Kaaba at Mecca, the, 235
Kadi Keni, town of, 97
Kaempfer, Engelrecht, 358
Kaffa, city of, 41
Kaif, favorite pastime of the Moslems, 138
Kalah Sherghat, mound of, 378
Kalat el Gebbar, 389
Kalat Makhul, 389
Kapist, Count, 154
Katholicos, head of the Nestorian church, 306
Kelek, a trip down the Tigris on a, 370–401
Kerbela, sacred shrine of, 444
“Key of the Danube,” the, 24
Khabur, valley of, 298
Khanikin, 154
Khatti, the, 275
Kheta, the, 275
Knights of St. John of Jerusalem, 217
Kohl, J. G., 17
Koldewey, Dr. Robert, 379, 475
Konia, 151
ancient Iconium, 122
inhabitants of, 176
situation and climate of, 174
Koran, 96, 116
contains many beautiful things, 248
Kublai Khan, 40
Kufah, 466
Kurdish race, 208
Kurdistan, 306
Kutchuk Ali Uglu, 194
Kuyunjik, 365
Lane-Poole, Stanley, 243
Language of Babylonia, 500
Latin Empire in Constantinople, establishment of, 327
Latin, language of Hungary for many years, 16
Latin Millet, 318
Layard, Austen Henry, 350
Leah, 294
Lebanon, 313
Lebanon Range, 294
“Legend of Abgar,” 285
Lemnos, 87
Lenormant, François, 456
Leo, the Mathematician, 423
Leo XIII, Pope, 334, 338
Lesbos, 105
Liberator of Bulgaria, 29
Library of Asurbanipal, 354
Linschoten, John Huyghen Van, 265
Little Sister of the Poor, 248
Little Sweet Water, 48
Lloyd George, David, 64
Lombard, Peter, 449
Loti, Pierre, on the Turks, 140, 144
Louis VII, of France, 121
Lucian, the Greek Voltaire, 346
Lucullus, 297
Ludwig I, of Bavaria, 6
Ludwig Kanal, 33
Lully, Raymond, 252
Mahmud II, Sultan, 110, 156
Malabar, 310
Malik al-Ashraf, 217
Mandeville, Sir John, 378, 451, 482
Manzoni, 8
Marco Polo, 39, 304, 412
Marcus Aurelius, 14
Mardin, city of, 304
Mare Magnum or Majus, 39
Margaret de Valdemar, Queen of Norway, Sweden and Denmark, 383
Maria Theresa, Queen, 15
Marie-Joseph, Father, 405
Mark Anthony, 204
Marmora, Sea of, 77
Maronites, 313
Marquise de Pompadour, 110
Marracci, Padre Lodovico, 221, 226
Mar Shimum, Lord Simon, 306
Mar Yohannan, 308
Mausolus, King of Caria, tomb of, 184
Mayo, M., 453
McGahan, Januarius A, 27, 28
Mecca, hadj, or annual pilgrimage to, 224
Medak, or story-teller, 177
Medes, the, 345
Mehemet Ali, 189
Melchites, 310
Merodach, temple of, 490
Mesopotamia, 283
Metz, Gautier de, 449
Mevlana, tomb of, 172
Meyer, Professor Wilhelm, 361
Michael Cerularius, 325
Michael Prellos, 326
Midas, King of Phrygia, 184
Moawiah, Saracen, 61
Mohammed, accomplishments of, 230
and his followers, 224
creed of, 227
erroneous notions concerning, 224
preaches monotheism, 230
reformation of his countrymen by, 229
Mohammedanism, campaign of vilification against, 225
changeless in doctrine, 242
Christianity in relation to, 247
has a reverence for our Saviour, 249
much to respect and admire in, 270
not on the wane, 240
“the lay religion par excellence,” 233
theologians comment on, 238
Mohammed II, Sultan, 57, 68, 108, 311, 321
Mohammed V, Sultan, 125
Monogamy, 125
Monophysitism, 309
Monotheism, preached by Mohammed, 230
Montague, Lady Mary Wortley, on the Turkish women, 181
Mopsuestia, city of, 197, 199
Moslems, by law not allowed to erect tombstones, 259
characteristics of, 134
creed of the, 227
forbidden tobacco, 178
great use of coffee, 179
of a deeply religious nature, 221
orthodox, do not like the dervishes, 173
piety and devotion of, 124
prayers, 237
regard paintings and statues as impious, 175
women, their place in things, 129
Mosques, the, 234
Mosul, 298, 299, 303
Mount Athos, community of, 331
Mummius, 217
Murad II, Sultan, 108
Muslin, derivation of the word, 298
Mustansiriyah College, 417
Nabonnassar, era of, 501
Nabopolassar, 345
Nahr Belikh, 293
Napoleon, 78
Nazienzus, St. Gregory, 71
Near East question, modified by the Bagdad railway, 151
Nebuchadnezzar II, 281, 397, 490
Nehi Yunus, 365
Nejef, sacred shrine of, 444
Nestor, 201
Nestorianism, 297, 305
Nestorius, Patriarch of Constantinople, 305
Nibelungenlied, 11
Nicæa, 101
Nicene Creed, 102
Nicomedia, 101
Niebuhr, Carsten, 349, 358, 480
Nightingale, Florence, 98
Nimrod, 284
Nimrod’s tower, 478
Nimroud, general aspect of, 376
ruins of, 376
Nineveh, 341–369
built by Asur, 345
early history of, 345
“Niobe of nations,” 310
Nippur, ruins of, 364
Nisibis, 289, 296
Nitocris, Queen, 488
Nizamiyah College, 417
Noachian deluge, 351
Nod, land of, 462
Novatians, 305
Norris, Edwin, 362
“Oak of Weeping,” 298
Obbanes, 281
Œcumenical councils, 102
Œcumenical Patriarchs, 330
Olympus, 90
Omar Khayyám, 417
Opis, 400
Oppert, head of French expedition to Mesopotamia, 482
Orientalium Dignitas Ecclesiarum of Pope Leo XIII, 340
Orkhan, second ruler of the Osmanlis, 95
son of Osman, 107
Orthodox churches, 320
Osman, founder of the Osmanli dynasty, 107
Osmanlis, characteristics of, 133
great sin, one of omission rather than commission, 219
plea for more tolerance to, 150
Oshœne, kingdom of, 284
Ottoman women, 49
Pæstum, ruins of, 475
Pagans, 304
Palace of the Star, 49
Paleologus, Theodore, 114
Palgrave, on Mohammedanism, 241
Palmyra, 217
Pan-Islamism, a force which Christianity must reckon with, 243
greater missionary force than ever, 244
the strengthening of, 268
Parthenon, 57
Parthian Kings, 491
Parthians, 297
Passau, 7
Patriarch of Alexandria, head of the Copts, 312
Patriarchus Antiochenus Maronitarum, 314
Paulinists, 305
Paul-Simon, Father, 403
Perez, Father, 403
Pergamus, kingdom of, 185
Peripatetics, 201
Persepolis, 356
Persian Gulf, 466
Persian Kings of the Achæmenian dynasty, 356
Persian satraps, 310
Persian shiites, 445
Persians, school of the, 290
Pescennius Niger, 194
Peter the Great, 331
“Peuteringian Table,” 298
Peter the Venerable, Abbot of Cluny, 232, 252
Petervarad, 20
Phanar, the Vatican of the Orthodox church, 330
Philetism, love of one’s race, 330
Photius, 71, 323
Phrygian language, 171
Pietro della Valle, 263
Pillars of Hercules, 325
Pinches, T. F., 462
Plague, in Bagdad, 431
Platonists, 201
“Plato the Divine,” 172
Pliny the Younger, 94
Polygamy, 125
Pontus Axenus, 39
Pool of Abraham, 291
Porter, Robert Ker, 480
Potsdam, meeting at, in 1910 of Czar and Kaiser, 164
Poverello of Assisi, 142
Pozsony, 18
Præclara, 335
Prayer, of the Moslems, 237
Priam, city of, 88
Primate of the Melchites, 313
Princes Islands, 99
Prophet Daniel, 375
Prophet Jonas, mound of, 352
Prophet Zephaniah, 345
Psametik, King of Egypt, 171
Pylæ Ciliciæ, or Cilician Gates, 188
Pylæ-Tauri, gate of Taurus, 189
“Queen of the East,” 194
Rachel, 294
Railway, construction of, across Mesopotamia, 152
Rameses II, the greatest of the Pharaohs, 274
Ramsay, Lady, 129
Ramsay, Sir W. M., 129
Raphael’s Madonna of San Sisto, 3
Rashid ud Din, 413
Rassam, Ormuzd, 351
Ratisbon, city of, 3
Rawlinson, Sir Henry, 361, 411
Rebecca, 294
Reign of Terror in France, 212
Rhazes, Mussulman physician, 416
Rhenus Superbus, 8
Rhine, river, 11
Richard Cœur de Lion, 10
Rich, Claudius James, 349, 480
Ricouard, Marie, 404
Rio de Janiero, 66
“Rite of Malabar,” 314
Robinson, Reverend Paschal, 141
Romans, road builders of antiquity, 254
Roumania, 26
Roxalana, the Muscovite, 109
Royal Art Gallery of Dresden, 3
“Royal Road,” 121, 253
Rum Millet, 318
Russia, attitude toward the Bagdad railway, 160
campaigns in the Transcaucasia, 250
waives all share in Bagdad railway, 164
Russian Nihilist, Armenian revolutionists inspired by, 206
Russians, 28
Safia, the Venetian, 110
St. Athanasius of Alexandria, 335
St. Augustine, 228
St. Basil’s liturgy, 340
St. Bernard, 299
St. Cyril, Patriarch of Alexandria, 315
St. Dominic, Sons of, 341
St. Ephrem, 290
St. Francis, Sons of, 142
St. George and the dragon, 24
St. Gregory Mazienzen, 333
St. Gregory the Illuminator, 310
St. Jerome, 232, 299
St. John of Chrysostom, 333
St. John of Damascus, 231
St. John of Jerusalem, Knights of, 217
St. Mary of Kanobin, 314
St. Paul, 171, 189
life and career of, 202–205
St. Peter of Alcantara, 406
St. Prosper of Aquitaine, 216
St. Simeon Stylites, 257
St. Stephen, cathedral of, 12
St. Thecla, 172
St. Theodore of Studium, 339
St. Theresa, 247
St. Thomas, church of, in Malabar, 314
St. Vincent de Paul, 247
Sainte-Thérèse, Father Bernard de, 404
Saladin, Sultan, 223
birthplace of, 393
Salmanassar I, 376
Salmanassar II, black obelisk of, 200
Salmanassar III, 386
Sammuramat, or Semiramis, 381
Samothrace, 87
San Marco, Cathedral of, 58
San Stephano, treaty of, 63
Santa Sophia, church of, 53
Sapor I, 297
Sappho, 105
Saracens, 317
Sardanapalus, 203
Sargan II, 386
Sarzec, M. Ernest de, 363
Satyrs, 476
Saulcy, M. de, 362
Schneider, Siegmund, German engineer, 166
Scholarios, George, 328
School of Edessa, 297
“School of the Persians,” 290
Schrader, Eberhard, 363
Second Council of Lyons in 1274, 327
See of Constantinople, 325
Selamlik, 127
Seleucia, city of, 491
Seleucia-Ctesiphon, 305
Seleucids, the, 316
Seleucus Nicator, 491
Seleucus, the Chaldean astronomer, 503
Selim I, Sultan, 108, 117
Seljuk Sultans of Rum, 172
Semiramis, 381
family and connections of, 386
“Semiramis of the North,” the, 61
Sennacherib, 375
Septimus Severus, 14, 194, 297
Serbians, against the Turks, 148
Serpent Column from Delphi, 59
Seven Sleepers, legend of the, 197
Shamsi-Adad V, 380
Simeon, castle of, 256
“Siren of the Nile,” 205
Sister of Charity, 247
Sisters of St. Francis from Lons, 292
Skobeleff, General, 28
Smith, George, 351
Sobieski, John, 13
Solyman the Magnificent, 108
Solyman Pasha, 78
Sons of St. Dominic, 303
Sons of St. Francis, 142
Sanusiyahs, the, 246
Stamboul, 48
Stanley, Dean, 337
Stoics, 201
Stone of Nebi Yunus, 352
Strabo, 201
Suez Canal, 153
Sunnites, the, 445
Syrians, the, 272
Syrian Uniates, 310
Tabriz, city of, 41
Tallyrand, 34
Tarsus, 190, 202
once the center of Greek thought and knowledge, 201
Tartars, 306
Taurus Mountains, 183
Tekrit, 392
Telloh, city of, 364
Temple of Fame, 6
Tenedos, 87
Ten Thousand Greeks, the, 171
Terrestrial Paradise, dispute as to, 447
“Testament of Leo XII,” 335
Teufelsmauer, Devil’s Wall, 9
Teutonic Powers, 162
Thaddée, Father, 403
Thapsacus, 281
Thare, 294
“The Great River” of the Jews, 282
Theodora, daughter of Cautacuzenos, 114
Theodora, Empress, 102
Theodosius II, Emperor, 257
“The Round City,” 411
“The Terrible Turk,” 148
Thévenot, Jean de, 391
“Thirty pieces of silver,” 295
Thracian Hellespont, 77
Tiglath-Pileser I, King of Assyria, 293, 386
Tigris, the, 278
Timok River, 27
Timur, 113, 216
Tobacco, use of, forbidden by Moslems, 178
Tomi, 37
Tonietti, Sig. A., 154
Tower of Babel, mound of Babil not the, 479
Trade routes of the Near East, 253
Trajan, Emperor, 298
Trampe, Herr, 168
Treaty of San Stephano, 63
Trojan War, 319
Troubadours, the, 222
Troy, glory of, immortal, 93
plain of, 88
“Turk,” applied by Osmanlis when referring to a brutal man, 112
Turks, propaganda against, 123
treatment of the women, 131
Turkey, Great Powers cannot, without trouble, treat, as pariah nation, 213
Tyre, city of, 217
Uniate Copts, 313
Uniates, 308
Urban VIII, Pope, 404
Urfa, 284
“Uriah the Hittite,” 275
Ur of the Chaldees, 294
Vale of Bozanti, 188
Valle, Pietro della, 357, 478
Vasco da Gama, 73, 264
Venice, 58
Via Sacra, of Babylon, 497
Vienna, 13
Villamil, Emeterio, 453
Violet, M. H., 399
Vladimir, King of Russia, 339
Volga River, 32
Voltaire, 269
on the Koran, 225
von Bieberstein, Baron Marschall, 158
von Hammer-Purgstall, 304
von Moltke, 156
von Pressel, Wilhelm, German engineer, 166
von Siemens, Dr. George, 156
Wahabis, the, 179
Wallachians, 114
Whirling dervishes, 173
“White City” of Serbia, 21
Whitman, Sidney, on the Turks, 147
Wiseman of Westminster, 369
Wo Lag das Paradies, 466
Wolf of the Capitol in Rome, bronze, 59
Worship, freedom of, allowed by the Turks, 145
Xenocrates, 97
Xenophon, 46, 189, 281
Xerxes, 59, 77, 83
Yashmak, veil worn by Moslem women, 128
Zab, the, 388
Zenobia, “Queen of the East,” 194
Zeno, Emperor, 201, 297
Zeus, 45, 91
Zikr ul Aawaze, 376
Zobeide, tomb of, 440
Zoroaster, religion of, 256