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Turkey, a World Problem of To-Day

Turkey, a World Problem of To-Day

Williams, Talcott

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General World History

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ISBN10: 1459011112
ISBN13: 9781459011113
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 74
Weight: 0.33
Height: 0.15 Width: 7.44 Depth: 9.69
Language: English
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921. Excerpt: ... THE TURKS OF CENTRAL ASIA THE Turkish race has displayed a gift for affairs in conquest and in the permanent subjection of alien peoples unknown to the rest of the races of Asia. In Asia, Turkish still remains one of the world's foremost tongues. A man can ride from Scutari across the Bosphorus from Constantinople seven thousand miles to the gates of Peking and through all that long stretch he will never be more than two or three days' ride distant from some village in which Turkish is spoken. He will follow it across the Turkish Empire. Across northern Persia, he will still be on the great Turki trek. He will pass up through the central Asian Khanates, of which one, Bokhara, has made its name familiar in many an American house; he will rim the great central Asian plateau with from twenty to thirty million Turkish nomads, and when they have grown few in number as he crosses Mongolia, there will still remain an occasional reminder that the track of the Turk has led in conquest again and again straight to the gates of Peking. In the upper waters of the Yenisei whose fertile valleys bloom with the vivid flowers of a mountain spring, and Russian immigrants have begun the creation of a new world from the only migration that moves eastward, the Turkish trail divides. To the right, it takes the track of conquest to Peking. To the left, it passes on to the Yakuts who dwell under the long day and the endless nights of the Arctic. Speaking Turkish, they retain the dialects of the past and the ancient Shamanist rites, brutal and bestial, well-nigh the lowest faith known. Where these three trails divide on the Yenisei, Constantinople behind, Peking before, the savage Yakuts to the Arctic north, the Turk was already known in the eighth century in the centre of central...

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