Word: trebizond
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...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-Persian oil country and Teheran...
Unprecedented last week was a deluge of snow which spread death and destruction in Trebizond. Nineteen feet lay piled on the Gümush-Khane plain above the city while, across the mountains, Constantinople and Angora were sweltering in their hottest summer...
Students of Xenophon quickly recalled that Trebizond is that ancient Hellenic city of Trapezus, the Tableland, where the famed 10,000 halted for rest. Those with a more curious eye for the romantic characters of history recalled Alexius Comnenus, fugitive of the fourth crusade, imaginative, able 22-year-old knight-errant who crowned himself king of the land...
...last week, that inhabitants of Trebizond were totally unprepared when its mountain guardians, reliable for centuries, failed to guard...
From the Turkish city of Trebizond (equivalent to a U. S. Fundamentalist stronghold) news came last week that pious women have found a way to circumvent the recent law that all Turkish women must go about with their faces naked. Since the Government of President Mustafa Kemal Pasha has ravished from Turkish womenfolk the veil, Mohammedan "Fundamentalists" in Trebizond adopted last week the umbrella. Determined to protect modesty, they walked in rain or sunshine with only eyes peeping above umbrellas held flat against face and body...