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Caption: War Publications - WWI Compilation 1923 - Article 23
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• so cul *n h und to he in tin H.dkans. The country as a wh le is usually considered as ft visions as follows: 1 Armenia, on the northeast. This is made up < « it has and snowy or forest clad mountain masses from which issue the great rixcrs. Here the agricultural conditions and possible industries art quite distinct from those of other portions of Asiatic Turkey. This Country might be more or less arbitrarily outlined and set c;tF as the home of the Armenians, but even here they are in the minority, being outnumbered by the Kurds and other peoples who occu 2. Anatoba or Asia Minor proper* This lies farther west and is composed of somewhat lower and more arid plateaus. It is the home of the Turkish peasantry, which is here the predominating class and race. 5 Mesopotamia and Baylonia Stretch from the foothills of Armenia toward the south and east to the Persian Gulf. Here is the land ot extreme heat — a country needing irrigation but capable of supporting an immense population. It is now held by Great Britain; the Arab tribes and town 'dwellers appear to be content under British rule. 4. Arabia with its great desert — the home of the Bedouin — with its fringing sea coasts and sacred cities of Mecca and Medina has apparently been promised recognition as an independent kingdom of the Hejaz. 5. Syria stretching from the Mediterranean coast to the valley of the Euphrates and overlapping into Arabia has been largely within the sphere of R e n c h influence and is quite distinct in its cultural development. As part of Syria it is customary to include the small, but very important, country of Palestine, where it is proposed that the Jews may have a national home, tho at present the Jews are in the minority in that country and most of the land is owned and has been occupied for. centuries by Arabic-speaking people. 6. The Greek islands and cities fringing the coast are distinct iin climatic and industrial factors from the rest of the country, but are not easily separated from the more typically Turkish lands by any well marked geographical feature. While possible A suaip mic or to seiect any natural boundary as definitive. This is peculiarly the case Jas between the sea coast 12
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