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The term Transcaucasia denotes the region bounded on the north by the great Caucasian chain , the watershed dividing Europe from Asia , on the south by the old Russo - Turkish and Russo - Persian frontiers . Under the Russian Empire it ...
The term Transcaucasia denotes the region bounded on the north by the great Caucasian chain , the watershed dividing Europe from Asia , on the south by the old Russo - Turkish and Russo - Persian frontiers . Under the Russian Empire it ...
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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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Its population is Armenian , Tatar , and Persian ; and , although it has lost much of its Eastern character in ninety years of Russian rule and expansion , a few monuments still serve to recall the memory of its Persian masters .
Its population is Armenian , Tatar , and Persian ; and , although it has lost much of its Eastern character in ninety years of Russian rule and expansion , a few monuments still serve to recall the memory of its Persian masters .
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CONTENTS OF Nos 470 AND | 1 |
Recent Shakespearean Research | 2 |
Abyssinia under Menelik and After | 3 |
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| Title | The Quarterly Review, Volume 238 |
| Contributors | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero |
| Publisher | John Murray, 1922 |
| Original from | UC Southern Regional Library Facility |
| Digitized | 28 Nov 2017 |
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