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Title: Leavening the Levant
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Greene, Joseph K., 1834-
Subjects: Missions
Publisher: Boston, The Pilgrim Press
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
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und in the lands visited. Thus the Board entered on itswork in Turkey only after years of inquiry and discussion,rightly judging that in historical, archaeological, and Biblicalinterest no lands compared with Asia Minor, Syria, andEgypt, and that the revival of Christianity in those ancientBible lands was a matter of paramount importance to thosewho wished to preach the Gospel to the Mohammedans ofTurkey. Let us now pass those lands and the people inhabit-ing them in brief review. Asia Minor Asia Minor is about 1,000 miles long and 400 wide, aland as large as New York, Ohio, Indiana, and a part ofIllinois. It is divided, east and west, by the Taurusmountains, and, north and south, by the Anti-Taurus orMount Ararat range, mountains which terminate in peaksfrom 10,000 to 17,000 feet high, namely in Mount Argaeusnear Cesarea in the west and in the mountains of Ararat inthe east. It has four principal rivers, Sangarius in the westwhich drains the ancient provinces of Galatia, Phrygia, and
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THE LAND AND THE PEOPLE 3 Bithynia and empties into the Black Sea, the Halys (KizilIrmak) in the center, also emptying into the Black Sea, andthe Tigris and Euphrates in the east emptying into thePersian Gulf. It is a land of great plains, denuded of treesand surrounded by high hills or mountains. Many of thelarge towns and cities are situated, each, at the foot of somemountain, facing a plain. Eastern Asia Minor, the land ofancient Armenia, is, for the most part, a plateau, severalthousand feet above the sea. On the whole the country hasa good climate, cold in winter in the northern and easternsections, and hot in summer in the central and southern sec-tions. Asia Minor is a land of great fertility. After thousandsof years of cultivation, and without the use of fertilizers, itstill produces excellent wheat, rye, barley, and oats, all kindsof fruits and vegetables, fine woods, wools, and dyes, and, insome parts, cotton, rice, and tobacco. Large sections of thecountry are given up to p

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