THE TURK AND THE SARACEN
Saracens. Eastern Mahometans that crossed into Turkey, Northern Africa, and Spain. The Moors are a type.
122: 14. Sogdiana. Northeast of the river Oxus; included in modern Bokhara.
123: 6. White Huns. Ancient people living near the Oxus; called white from their greater degree of civilization.
125: 23. Damascus. In Asiatic Turkey; thought to be the oldest city in the world.
126: 1. Harun al Raschid. Caliph of Bagdad; contemporaneous with Charlemagne in the eighth century.
127: 28. Ended its career. The power of the European Turks, virtually broken at Lepanto, 1571, has continued to decline, so that were it not for the jealousy of the Powers, Turkey would long since have been dismembered.
129: 24. Khorasan. North central province of Persia.
133: 25. (a) Seljuk. (b) Othman. (a) Grandfather of Togrul Beg, who founded a powerful dynasty in Central Asia. (b) Third successor of Mahomet; caliph in 644; noted for his extensive conquests and for having given his name to the Ottomans.
135: 20. Greek Emperor. Romanus Diogenes, defeated in 1071 A.D.