Through Asiatic Turkey: Narrative of a Journey from Bombay to the Bosphorus, 2권S. Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1878 |
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Aleppo Alexandretta amongst Arab Arbela Armenians arrived Asiatic asked Assyrian Baghdad Balawat banks Beilan Bishop bridge built caravan carried Chaldean Christians Church Circassians considerable Constantinople course Diarbekir distance doubt dragoman East Empire England English escort Euphrates European excavations feet give Government Greeks half hand hills horses hundred India inhabitants Jacobites Jews Jezeerah journey Kars Kerkook Kurdish Kurdistan Kurds Lake Lake Van look Mardin Mesopotamia miles missionaries morning Moslems mosque Mosul mound mountains mudir munzil khana Mussulmans native nearly Nestorians night Nimroud Nineveh Nisibin o'clock once Orfah Ottoman palace Pasha pass Patriarch Persian Gulf petroleum plain population rafts railway Rassam river robbers Roman route Russians seemed sent sheep side snow soldiers steamers Sultan sun-dried brick surajee Syrian tablets temple Thawook things Tigris told took town travellers troops Turkey Turkish Turks village walls whole zaptiehs
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296 페이지 - Whose arms were moulded in their mothers' womb To chase these pagans in those holy fields Over whose acres walk'd those blessed feet Which fourteen hundred years ago were nail'd For our advantage on the bitter cross.
185 페이지 - are of recent origin. It was in AD 1681 that the Nestorian metropolitan of Diarbekir, having quarrelled with his patriarch, was first consecrated by the Pope patriarch of the Chaldeans. The sect was as new as the office, and created for it. Converts to papacy from the Nestorian and Jacobite churches were united in one body, and dignified by the name of the Chaldean church. It means no more than papal Syrians, as we have in other parts papal Armenians and papal Greeks."§ There appears to be no pro*...
198 페이지 - It is to the honour of this sect, that of all the Christians resident in the East they have preserved themselves the most free from the numberless superstitions, which have found their way into the Greek and Latin churches.(26) § 16.
356 페이지 - A great future awaits those magnificent provinces which have so long lain fallow after centuries of boundless prosperity. Already the evidences of a slow revival are visible. It does not, I think, require the gift of prophecy to foretell that in a few years the whole face of the country will be changed, and that the traveller who makes his way from the Persian Gulf to the Mediterranean will not see it, as I have seen it, with the desert visible from the minarets of the most populous cities, and wild...
190 페이지 - Tigranes with him, and the best of the Median horse, together with as many of his own friends as he thought proper, rode round and surveyed the country, examining where he should build a fortress. Going up to a certain eminence, he asked Tigranes what sort of mountains they were from which the Chaldeans came down to plunder the country ? Tigranes pointed them out to him. He then inquired again, " And are these mountains now entirely deserted ?" " No, indeed," said he ; "but there are always scouts...
189 페이지 - There are three dialects of the Syrian tongue; first, the Aramean, or Syriac, properly so-called, which is the most elegant of all, and used in Mesopotamia and by the inhabitants of Roha, or Edessa, of Haran and the outer Syria; second, the dialect of Palestine, spoken by the inhabitants of Damascus, Mount Libanus, and the inner Syria; third, the Chaldee, or Nabathean dialect, the most unpolished of the three, current in the mountainous parts of Assyria and in the villages of Irak and Babylonia.
292 페이지 - ... facilities are often given by the cities and towns giving securities for certain amounts on their Municipal Bonds. The cities in which it is to have its termini also agree to subscribe for portions of its share capital, and so do the inhabitants of the towns and villages through which it is to pass. This is a very important feature of the American railway system, inasmuch as it gives the inhabitants of each district which a railway traverses, a direct local and individual interest in the promotion...
194 페이지 - Bar-Hebraeus, a promoter of the Jacobites, wishing to make a thorough distinction between the writing of the Monophysites and that of the Nestorians, changed the characters and the vowel points. The Chaldean p and a are changed by the Syrians into ph and o. For instance, what the former as in Scripture times pronounce Eppathaha, the latter would call Ephothoho. Then such words as "Marantha...
194 페이지 - ... became the vernacular dialect of Mesopotamia, Syria, and the Holy Land, after the Assyrian conquest, so also when the Arabians took possession of those countries, they established their language, which has been in use up to the present time.