Identifier: worldbookorganiz07oshe (find matches)
Title: The world book; (electronic resource) organized knowledge in story and picture
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: O'Shea, M. V. (Michael Vincent), 1866-1932, ed Foster, Ellsworth D., ed Locke, George Herbert, 1870-1937, ed
Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: Chicago, New York (etc.) Hanson-Roach-Fowler Co.
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IN PERSIAS CAPITAL CITYThe streets of Teheran are narrow and usually are crowded ; the roofs of the houses are flat andare much used by the people as observation and sleeping quarters. is carried by steamship to Russian ports acrossthe Caspian and to English and Indian portsby way of the Persian Gulf. A telegraph sys-tem of about 6,500 miles of wire has been builtby the British government, and since 1904 Per-sia has had telegraphic communication withIndia. Mails are carried regularly to and from218 postoffices, and there is service twice weeklyto and from Europe. Cities. In the five principal cities of Persia,Teheran, the capital; Tabriz, the industrial cen-ter; Ispahan, Meshhed and Kirman, there is apopulation of only 680,000. by the melting mountain snows, and in thesedistricts grow a great variety of timber andplants, and most of the crops of Central Eu-rope can be raised there. Dense, humid, malarial forests border theshores of the Caspian Sea, while along the Per-sian Gulf the ta

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