... falling into their hands. It was in this district that, some four centuries ago, the Ottoman Sultan Selim defeated the Persian Shah Isniail ; but in those days Turk and Persian were able to settle their differences without the help or interference of ...

... a moment came when the German and Turkish Ministers moved out of that city to meet and take under their protection the Persian Shah and Government , But pressure applied by the n . arch of Russian troops to the neighbourhood of Teheran brought about an ...