The Lebanon (Mount Souria).T. C. Newby, 1860 - Ethnology |
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... silk to buy it . The seed of the worm is hatched by the women in their breasts , and the worms are fed in the cottages . The gathering of the leaves and the winding of the silk occupy in Midsummer the whole population . The tilling of ...
... silk to buy it . The seed of the worm is hatched by the women in their breasts , and the worms are fed in the cottages . The gathering of the leaves and the winding of the silk occupy in Midsummer the whole population . The tilling of ...
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... silk was brought from China in the time of Justinian , who introduced it at Tripoli . But the terraces of the Lebanon , which then received the mulberry , were not constructed for that tree . Before its introduction the cities of Eden ...
... silk was brought from China in the time of Justinian , who introduced it at Tripoli . But the terraces of the Lebanon , which then received the mulberry , were not constructed for that tree . Before its introduction the cities of Eden ...
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... silk to exchange for grain . By olives alone this exchange could not have been effected ; we must look for other produce as well , or for a greater relative value in the articles still produced . The Vines might supply wine and dried ...
... silk to exchange for grain . By olives alone this exchange could not have been effected ; we must look for other produce as well , or for a greater relative value in the articles still produced . The Vines might supply wine and dried ...
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... silk of Lebanon enjoyed perfect im- munity from the period of Justinian down to the expulsion of the Egyptian troops and the restoration of Syria in 1840 to the authority of the Porte . CHAPTER II . THE PEOPLE BY WHICH IT IS INHABITED ...
... silk of Lebanon enjoyed perfect im- munity from the period of Justinian down to the expulsion of the Egyptian troops and the restoration of Syria in 1840 to the authority of the Porte . CHAPTER II . THE PEOPLE BY WHICH IT IS INHABITED ...
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... silk . There are 40,000 men fit to bear arms ; and all the Sultan takes from us is £ 17,000 ; whoever heard of such a tax ? Then he pays back to us for ourselves £ 13,500 . Then the troops here , by which we have our present properity ...
... silk . There are 40,000 men fit to bear arms ; and all the Sultan takes from us is £ 17,000 ; whoever heard of such a tax ? Then he pays back to us for ourselves £ 13,500 . Then the troops here , by which we have our present properity ...
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Abaye Abdallah Pasha Abou Niket Achmet Aleppo Amad ancient Anti-Lebanon appear Arabs Baalbec Beled Bsharré Beyrout Bkkaa brother Caliph century chiefs Christian coast Constantinople Crusaders Deir el Cammar districts Druzes Egypt Emin Effendi Emir Beshir Emir Hassan Emir Hydar Emir Jusuff Empire Europe Fakreddeen favour France Gebail Gebel Government Greek Hashbaya Hauran Ibrahim Pasha Ibtedeen inhabitants investiture Islam Jezzar Jumbellat Jusuff Kesroan land Lebanon Maan Maronite Mehemet Mehemet Ali ment Meten Metuali Mirdites Moarni Monophysites mountain mulberry Mussulman Nosaïri numbers occupied Ottoman Ottoman Empire partizans Pasha of Acre Pasha of Damascus Pasha of Saïda piastres Porte possession Prince proselytism race refuge religion rock Roman round Russian Saïd Bey Saïda Saracens sent Shaab Sheik Beshir Shouf silk sons of Jusuff Suleyman Pasha Sultan Syria Tebnin Tenhouk terraces tion Treaty tribe Tripoli troops Turkish Turks Tyre valley village Waddy el Teïm walls