Identifier: timeshistoryofwa10lond (find matches)
Title: The Times history of the war
Year: 1918 (1910s)
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Subjects: Times history of the war Times history and encyclopaedia of the war World War, 1914-1918
Publisher: London
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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peojiles of Asia and Kurofje still nmel inI he bazaars. Trehizond is older than Konio. It wasalready ancient in 401 n.c, when X«»nophonreached it with his Ten Thoiisand aft(»r theirlong retreat front Cynaxa, and the place is stillshown at the month of the Iyxitis where hepitched his cam() and whertt he rested for .Mdays and celebrated the gyinnic games. Longafterwards it was a Roman colony, and Tladrianis claimed as the builder of the harl)our. Fromthe foui-toenth century to the middle of thefifteenth it was the capital of the Empireof the Conineni— Emperors of the Romans,Lords of all Anatolia, Georgia, and the Trans-marine. With the coming of Mohammed II.,in 1462, its ancient glori(»s departed, but noteven the Turks could altogether destroy it asthe Black Sea gateway of commerce for theEast, and the coming of the railway to thenorthern coast of Asia Minor, under Russianauspices, will doubtless do something to restoreits importance. As in the case of Erzertun, the Turks were coy
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FLAGS OF FREEDOM IN TREBIZOND.The scene at the bouse of the Vali on the entry of the Russians. THE TIMES HISTORY OF THE WAR. 267

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