Word: erzerum
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...learn that at long last some of the half million Armenian exiles scattered all over the world are finding refuge in Soviet Armenia. But Soviet Armenia is only 10% of the Armenian homeland. Everyone knows that from Bible times till World War I, Mt. Ararat, Kars, Ardahan, Van, Bitlis, Erzerum, Harpoot and Diarbekir have been the home of the Armenian people. In the province of Diarbekir alone there were more than 50,000 Armenians before World War I. I know. I was born there and saw the Massacres...
...Turkey and Persia. Ten years ago there was no railway striking east from Ankara toward Persia and nothing but a caravan trail running west from Teheran toward Turkey. There is no through railway yet but the motor road over which His Majesty zipped from Teheran through Tabriz and Erzerum to the Turkish coast at Trebizond is now in prime shape to become an artery of heavy trucking and carry Persian carpets on a direct route to Europe. For trade with Russia and possible defense Persia is in course of being spanned by the line from Bandar Shapur via the Anglo...
...Balieff is not a Russian at all. He was born in Erzerum, Armenia, of a merchant family which held up their hard worked hands in horror when young Nikita divulged a yearning for the stage. Nikita shrugged his not, in those days, so very hardworked shoulders, deserted the family, who promptly cast him off, and was presently heard knocking at the stage door of the great Art Theatre in Moscow...
...Deputy of Erzerum, who proposed this scheme, had hoped to raise the population of Asia Minor from...
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