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Title: The Holy Land and Syria
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Carpenter, Frank G. (Frank George), 1855-1924
Subjects: Palestine -- Description and travel Syria -- Description and travel
Publisher: Garden City, N. Y. : Doubleday, Page & company
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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The transportation monopoly of the Bedouin and his camel is threatenedto-day by the invading automobile and motor truck
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At the end of the Booksellers Bazaar looms the Dome of the Mosque,built amid the ruins of a Christian church, which was itself preceded onthe same site by a Roman temple THE WORLDS OLDEST CITY God. Thus religion, like politics, makes strange bed-fellows. Damascus is the heart of the Mohammedan world.At its back is Persia, altogether Mohammedan. At itssouth are Palestine and Arabia, more Moslem thanChristian, while at the north are other realms of Islam.All around it the people are Mohammedans, who hatethe Christians and massacre them whenever they can.This was the case in the spring of 1909, when thousandswere killed and a terrible slaughter of Christians byheathens took place in this region. Multitudes weremassacred, and it was only because the great Christiannations of Europe were afraid of their pocketbooks andof the loss of that balance of power which might resultfrom a war that the Turkish Empire was not wiped outas a punishment therefor. The matter was hushed up,and but little o

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