File:Collier's new encyclopedia - a loose-leaf and self-revising reference work with 515 illustrations and ninety-six maps (1921) (14781909604).jpg

Identifier: colliersnewencyc01newy (find matches)
Title: Collier's new encyclopedia : a loose-leaf and self-revising reference work ... with 515 illustrations and ninety-six maps
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors:
Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: New York : P. F. Collier
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
ies on the eastern bank of theTigris, old Bagdad, the residence of thecaliphs (now in ruins), was on the west-ern bank of the river. The modern cityis surrounded with a brick wall about6 miles in circuit; the houses are mostlybuilt of brick, the streets unpaved, andvery narrow. The palace of the Governoris spacious. Manufactures: leather, silks,cottons, woolens, carpets, etc. Steamersply on the river between Bagdad andBassorah, and the city exports wheat,dates, galls, gum, mohair, carpets, etc.,to Europe. Bagdad is inhabited byTurks, Arabs, Persians, Armenians, Jews,etc., and a small number of Europeans.The Turks compose three-fourths of the BAGDAD RAILWAY 384 BAHAMA ISLANDS whole population. The city has been scription of the Money Market,* He frequently visited by the plague, and, in died in London, March 24, 1877.1831, was nearly devastated by that calamity. Bagdad was founded in 762, BAHAMA BANK, GREAT and by the Caliph Almansur, and raised to a LITTLE, shoals among the West India
Text Appearing After Image:
MOSQUE OF ABDUL KADR AT BAGDAD high degree of splendor, in the 9thcentury, by Haroun Al Raschid. It isthe scene of a number of the tales of theArabian Nights. In the 13th centuryit was stormed by Hulaku, grandson ofGenghis-Khan, who caused the reigningcaliph to be slain, and destroyed thecaliphate. In the World War (1914-1918) British forces captured the city,,March 11, 1917, and it has since beengoverned by a British commission. Asa result of the peace treaty, handed tothe Turkish peace delegates in Paris onMayll, 1920, Bagdad became part ofthe independent state of Mesopotamia.Pop. of vilayet about 900,000. City,about 225,000. BAGDAD RAILWAY. See Mesopo-tamia. BAGEHOT, WALTER (bajot), anEnglish writer on political economy andgovernment, born in Langport, Somer-setshire, Feb. 3, 1826; was graduated atUniversity College, London, and ad-mitted to the bar; but never enteredpractice. His principal works are TheEnglish Constitution; Physics andPolitics; and Lombard Street: a De- Islands; t

Note About Images