Show WHEN THE NEAR EAST IS CIVILIZED roughly speaking turkey y was ins divided into five great provinces or d di 1 tricks anatolia Ana tolla armenia kurdistan mesopotamia and syria with this introduction william 11 hall writing to the national geographic society sketches the resources of turkey which have an opportunity for development with measures that may lessen the horrors of misrule injustice deportations massa massacres cies and famines a mines lie ile continues the same broad plains that once fed and clothed a population of 40 human beings are waiting today for uie the plow the seed sed and the reaper the mountains ains at still III hold riches of coal and iron and copper the quarries still have abundance of choice marbles the rivers are potent with power to turn the wheels of industry the natural harbors invite the fleets of merchantman merchantmen merchant men ani and the river valleys and mountain rift paes hsei offer natural lines of communication anti anil transportation rig as in the days davs when lien great caravans passed along these natural highways bringing the merchandise of the east to the markets of the west the vi whole licile land ila has been lying fal allow for centuries a land that aliat modern exploration reveals as one of the richest in natural and as unsurpassed by its geographic location for being the trade center of the world of arabia which was mas never more inore than nominally under ottoman dominion the turkish empire embraced about square miles of territory at the beginning of the world nar ar only about square miles ot of this were in europe the turkish empire was equivalent to the combined areas of tile british ples isles france and prewar pre war var germany it was larger than all of the area east of the mississippi rind and north ot of the alie ohio and potomac lo tomac rivers the boundaries were the black sei sea and caucasus on the north E egypt agypt on tile south the aegean and mediterranean seas on the west and the S rian desert and persia on the east turkey in europe 1 was almost a negligible area as the balkan wars war 4 s stripped the turks of all their european eus ells poes possessions excell except t constantinople and a narrow territory along the ta os porus and dardanelles Darda nelles some 40 miles in width so that in lien hen the turkish empire has been referred to in recent scars cars asiatic turley turkey wag waa nearly all that the term embraced |