The Venetians were too much for Shylock, and he lost his ducats and his daughter; amongst Christian Greeks, Christian Armenians, and Musalman Persians, from Constantinople to Tiflis, Teheran, Bagdad and Cairo, the poor man could not have saved sixpence a year.

The palaces of Athens, of Cairo, of Teheran, are all of modern date.

There he stands clad in his Bakhtiyari costume, the dress of a mountain tribe in Persia which asserted its independence of Teheran.

Deverill I came across once in Egypthe had been sent on a diplomatic mission to Teheran.

My eye travelled over that problem of the Near East, which, for some generations at least, we thought to have settled, to Vienna, Petersburg, Constantinopleand away farther East to Teheran andthat other place whose name I have forgotten.

The Shah has manifested an earnest disposition to cultivate friendly relations with our country, and has expressed a strong wish that we should be represented at Teheran by a minister plenipotentiary; and I recommend that an appropriation be made for this purpose.

Fortunately there was a young man on board who was half English and half Persian (his father, an Englishman, had married an Armenian from Teheran), and spoke both languages equally well.

I would gladly have left the ship here to visit the ruins of Persepolis, and travel by land from thence to Shiraz, Ispahan, Teheran, and so onwards; but serious disturbances had broken out in these districts, and numerous hordes of robbers carried on their depredations.

An obscure but ambitious Persian scholar, hearing of the generous patronage extended to students by Emperor Akbar in India, he started from Teheran to Delhi overland, a distance of several thousand miles.

It was carried away by Nadir Shah to Teheran in 1739, and what is left of it is still used by the Shah of Persia on ceremonial occasions.

There is a profusion of the fabrics of Teheran, Shiraz, Kandahar, Kabul, carpets marvelous in weaving and colors, silks, which are not worth as much as those of Lyons.

A branch line unites it with Teheran in Persia, while there has, as yet, been no survey for a line to India.

Another van had arrived from Teheran by the branch line to Mesphed, which puts the Persian capital in communication with the Transcaspian.

Worn out by labours and quests beyond her strength she fell sick at Teheran in 1916 and returned to England to die.

The beloved physician of Teheran.

The beloved physician of Teheran.

The road to Teheran; the story of Russia and America, 1781-1943.

The road to Teheran.

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SEE MORAIS, HERBERT M. Teheran, our path in war and peace.

The beloved physician of Teheran.

The beloved physician of Teheran.

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Drugged with fumes of his nargileh, Dreams the Mussulman By the fountains on his divan Slumbers Teheran.

The capital is Teheran (210), a narrow, crooked, filthy town, at the southern foot of the Elburz.