Minni, The, ii. 61, 72, 74
Mirabet, village of, Lake Van, ii. 136
Missions. (1) The earliest missionary enterprise in Armenia appears to have been that of the Dominicans, ii. 485.
(2) Jesuit Missions were established in the 17th century, ii. 153, 472,
and the Roman Catholic Church is still active in Turkish Armenia, 153, 170, 217,
though it does not make as much progress among the Armenians of the tableland as among their countrymen elsewhere, ii. 425.
(3) Protestant Missions:—the Basle Mission, i. 98–102.
The American Mission (Congregational Church of America) has been established in Asiatic Turkey from an early date in the 19th century, ii. 93;
its activities in Armenia are practically confined to the Armenians (Gregorian Christians), ibid.;
schools, hospitals and orphanages have been opened, 94, 95,
and the standard of living has been raised both in the material and the moral spheres, ibid.
The Mission at Van, ii. 93–95;
at Bitlis, 153, 154;
at Erzerum, 217;
at Kharput, 391.
Activity of the missionaries in the plain of Khinis, 256.
They are viewed with suspicion by the Russian Govt. and experience difficulty in crossing Russian Armenia, i. 102
Mithros, Mount of (Boz Tepe), i. 9, 10, 17
Mohammed II., Ottoman sultan, takes Trebizond and closes the Black Sea to Europe and commerce, i. 22, 36;
takes Erzerum, ii. 223
Mokri Gori (Wet Mountains), Northern Armenia, i. 87
Moldavia, emigration of Armenians to, i. 367
Molokans, Russian sectaries settled in Northern Armenia, their villages visited, i. 410–412; 456, 457.
Molokans at Erivan, 209
Monahan, Mr., British Consul at Bitlis, ii. 304
Monteith, W., i. 66 note, 90, 232