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Title: Cyclopedia universal history : embracing the most complete and recent presentation of the subject in two principal parts or divisions of more than six thousand pages
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Ridpath, John Clark, 1840-1900
Subjects: World history Ethnology World history
Publisher: Boston : Balch Bros.
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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ditions of thePersian pop-ulation. ber approximately eight million. OfClasses and con- thcse nearly two millionare townspeople. Aboutan equal number are Iliyats,or nomads, of whom we shall presentlyspeak. Between these two extremes ofstationary citizens and wandering tribes-men there is a large intermediate classof villagers who are more sedentary than like, are derived from the townspeopleor citizens who correspond to the aristoc-racy of Western Europe. No class of the Persian population isof greater interest to the Ethnic placetraveler and ethnographer i^ff J^tSr°^than the Iliyats, or wander- niyats.ing herdsmen. Of these, the mannerof life is pastoral rather than agricultural.
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FALCONER OF THE SHEIK.—Hindu-Persian Types and Costumes—Drawn by A. Sirouy, from a photograph by Madame Dieulafoy. THE IRANIANS.—ARCHITECTURE. 623 They are organized into tribes, of whichthe name is legion. Over each tribe isset a hereditary chieftain, who commandsin war and peace. His authority is quiteabsolute. The manner of life has respectto a division of the countr)^ into pastoraldistricts. Each tribe has its own dis-trict, and the same may be said of theminor clans and families. Though allwander about with their flocks, obeyingthe suggestion of the season as to pas-turage, the wandering is within the lim-its of the clan lands. Each tribe has itsown section in the hill-country, and tothis region it betakes itself with thecoming of spring, and there the tents arepitched until with the advance of the sea-son a removal to better grounds is neces-sary. But each tribe in its wanderingsmust confine itself to its own section. The social and domestic life of the Per-sians has been

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