Armenia, Travels and Studies (Volume 2 of 2) / The Turkish Provinces

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Keywords: Armenia, Asia -- Armenia.

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208	18½°	-19½°
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336	bowlder-strewn	boulder-strewn
383, 400, 497	Herrmann	Hermann
390	sa isfactory	satisfactory
452	do	does
475	504.23	504–23
479	asia tischen	asiatischen
480	Sémestre	Semestre
480	sudöst.	südöst.
480	Schneegränze	Schneegrenze
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484	Volkszahlung	Volkszählung
485	Volkerschaften	Völkerschaften
485	Armenai	Armenia
486	)	.
486	.	)
486	ausbeantwortet	aus beantwortet
487	armenien	arménien
487	,	.
495	unbiassed	unbiased
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	CONTENTS				v
	LIST OF PLATES				ix
		ILLUSTRATIONS IN THE TEXT			x
	LIST OF MAPS AND PLANS				xii
I.	DESCEND INTO TURKISH TERRITORY				1
II.	TO LAKE VAN				11
III.	ACROSS LAKE VAN				25
IV.	VAN				38
	I.	The Lake of Van			39
	II.	The Ancient Empire of Van			53
	III.	Van towards the Close of the Nineteenth Century			76
V.	FROM VAN TO BITLIS				116
VI.	BITLIS				145
VII.	FROM BITLIS TO MUSH—MUSH				160
VIII.	FROM MUSH TO ERZERUM				174
IX.	ERZERUM				198
X.	RETURN TO THE BORDER RANGES—ΘΆΛΑΤΤΑ, ΘΆΛΑΤΤΑThALATTA, ThALATTA!				225
XI.	REVISIT ARMENIA				237
XII.	ACROSS THE CENTRAL TABLELAND TO KHINIS				245
XIII.	FROM KHINIS TO TUTAKH				254
XIV.	DOWN THE MURAD TO MELAZKERT				264
XV.	FROM MELAZKERT TO AKHLAT				276
XVI.	AKHLAT				280
XVII.	OUR SOJOURN IN THE CRATER OF NIMRUD				298
XVIII.	ROUND NIMRUD BY LAKE NAZIK				314
XIX.	ASCENT OF SIPAN				326
XX.	BACK TO THE CENTRAL TABLELAND				340
XXI.	OUR SOJOURN ON BINGÖL				359
XXII.	HOME ACROSS THE BORDER RANGES				379
XXIII.	GEOGRAPHICAL				383
XXIV.	STATISTICAL AND POLITICAL				408
I.	NATIONAL CONSTITUTION OF THE ARMENIANS IN THE TURKISH EMPIRE				445
		PRELIMINARIES			445
		Document presented to the Sublime Porte by the National Committee and the Committee of the Government			446
		Ordinance of the Sublime Porte			448
		INTRODUCTION			448
		ARMENIAN NATIONAL CONSTITUTION			449
			Fundamental Principles		449
		I.	The Central National Administration		450
			I.	The Patriarch of Constantinople	450
			II.	The Bureau of the Patriarchate	453
			III.	The Patriarch of Jerusalem	453
			IV.	National Religious Assembly	454
			V.	The Political Assembly	456
			VI.	Councils and Committees organised by the Political Assembly	457
			VII.	Councils of Quarters	460
			VIII.	The National General Assembly—Its Organisation and its Duties	461
		II.	General Laws for Assemblies and Councils		465
		III.	National Taxation		466
		IV.	National Provincial Administration		466
		V.	Revision of the Constitution		467
II.	CHEMICAL CONSTITUTION OF SOME ARMENIAN LAKES				468
		LAKE VAN.			468
		LAKE URMI.			469
	BIBLIOGRAPHY				471
	I.	TRAVEL and TOPOGRAPHY			471
			General Authorities.		471
			Early Travel.		471
			Travel in the Nineteenth Century.		472
			Ararat.		480
			Russo-Turkish Wars.		482
			Data for Map.		482
			Statistics.		484
	II.	ARMENIAN PEOPLE			485
			Missionary Enterprise.		485
			Various.		486
	III.	ARMENIAN LITERATURE			487
			Armenian Writers Translated		488
			History		491
	IV.	VANNIC INSCRIPTIONS			492
	V.	ARMENIAN CHURCH			493
	VI.	POLITICAL			494
			British Parliamentary Papers		496
	INDEX				497