Word: turkish
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...anticipated in the report for last year, Professor George A. Reisner '89 began the excavations at Samaria, for which the Turkish authorities granted a permit in October, 1907. Baurath Dr. Gottlieb Schumacher of Haifa accompanied Dr. Reisner to continue the work after the latter's return to Egypt. After two interruptions due to serious local difficulties, relief from the Turkish authorities enabled a month and a half of digging to pass without further annoyance. At the end of August the money available for the first year was exhausted, and the work was accordingly brought to a close. The total amount...
...years Dr. Washburn was president of Robert College, Constantinople, which is the leading educational institution of the Turkish Empire, and has an enrolment of nearly 500 students. Many leaders in the "New Turkey" movement are graduates of this institution, and the education here afforded to the youth of the Balkan Peninsula was the cause of the uprising which resulted in Bulgarian independence. Dr. Washburn has been able to acquire a wide knowledge of the life and problems of the Balkan states, and is at the present time the foremost authority in this country on conditions in the Turkish Empire...
...Japan, 7; France, 6; India, 6; Cuba, 5; Russia, 5; Italy, 3; Argentine Republic, 2; British West Indies, 2; Bulgaria, 2; Egypt, 2; Mexico, 2; New Zealand, 2; South Africa, 2; Australia, 1; Brazil, 1; Colombia, 1; Holland, 1; Korea, 1; Peru, 1; Roumania, 1; Siam, 1; Switzerland, 1; Turkish Empire...
...Harvard Mission has received from Rev. George P. Knapp '87, a foreign missionary located in Harpoot, Turkey, a collection of foreign coins, mostly of Turkish and Greek countries, which have been put on sale at Phillips Brooks House for the benefit of the mission. In the collection as originally received there were 188 specimens, representing 113 different dynasties. The University library was given its choice of the coins to add to its collections, and the 75 which remained have been returned to Phillips Brooks House where they are now on sale. The coins are of different metals, the finest being...
...from America is exported to London, and date orchards where over 500,000 tons of dates were raised last year. As long as the Arabs remain nomads, however, the future of Arabia will be dark. The wandering tribes destroy the railroads, break up commerce and rob the citizens. The Turkish government is offering rewards and free land as an encouragement for them to settle down and cultivate the soil...