... of any of the advantages secured to the Dual Monarchy by the Treaty of Berlin, just as France once did in Egypt. A Hairs in Persia seem to be getting worse instead of better. The revolutionists hold Tabriz, but are unable to extend their power the Shah ...

... a moribund existence as the centre of a decaying state until 1502, hen it was taken by Shah Ismail of the Safawid line of Persia. In 1534 it fell to the smanli Turks under Suleiman the Great. In 1020 it was again captured by the Persians nder Shah Abbas ...

... somewhere in the region of the Ural Mountains. When the tragedy, which he and others had foreseen, came about he made his way to Persia after a journey, of almost incredible hardships. He reached safety half-starved and in rags. His father, the Grand Duke Paul ...

... for the subjugation of the vastness of Persia. To the west were mixed peoples whose problems centred round Egypt and the doings of E°ypt, insulated, again, from Persia by deserts and hard going. Eastward Persia had it all her own way, for once her thousands ...

... nothing from modern Socialism or Communism, the movement having originated in Persia in 1844, when a young man named Mirza Ali Mohamed declared that he was the Gate of Knowledge the Bab, which is Arabic for door or gate and that he was inspired with a mission ...