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. CHAPTER XVI.
productions, people, and social state
OP
asia minor.
Soil and Climate.—Animal and vegetable Productions.—Objects of Industry.
—Commercial Lines.—Exports.—Imports.—Permanent Villages.—Houses.
Kiosks and Cottages.—Tents of the Turkomans, Kurds, and Yiiruks.—
Nomadie Customs. — Towns.—Houses.—Bdzdrs.—Kdrvdnserdis.—Khans,
Baths, and Mosques. — Inhabitants.—Language, Religion, &c., of Asia
Minor.—Food, Clothing, and Character of the Armenians, Greeks, Kurds,
Turkomans, Yuruks, and Turks—Governments and Population of Asia
Minor.
T he soil throughout Asia Minor, with the exception of the
volcanic and rocky districts, is very fertile, and the plains are
amply watered by the rivers before mentioned, with their
numerous affluents. A large portion of the surface, parti
cularly in the territory bordering the two seas, and that near
Tokat, consists of a fine alluvium, covered with rich herbage,
or the finest grain crops. Its superficies rather exceeds that
of Spain, which kingdom, according to Adrien Balbi, 1 con
tains 137,400 square miles.
An elevated plateau, furrowed with valleys and intersected
by numerous chains of lofty mountains, characterizes the sur
face of Asia Minor as it does that of Persia; yet the climate
of the former differs essentially from that of the latter, and
indeed of every other country with which we are acquainted,
though it has been considered as most nearly resembling that
of the European peninsula above mentioned: the modifica
tion of the temperature, which is due to the geographical
1 Abrt5gt5 de Geographic, p. 595.