Edwin Munsell Bliss

TURKEY AND THE ARMENIAN ATROCITIES

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INDEX.

Abd-ul-Aziz, 246, 233, 277, 282, 286
Abd-ul-Hamid II, 118, 228, 253, 282, 301, 324, 564
Abd-ul-Medjid, 117, 222, 246, 268, 347
Abyssinians, 159
Adana, 122, 386
Adiaman, 487
Adrianople, Treaty of, 217
Aintab, 122, 402, 448, 451, 476
Aintab College, 317
Ak-Hissar, 477
Albania, 233, 388, 529
Albanians, 170
Albistan, 487
Aleppo, 148, 447
Ali Pasha, of Janina, 182, 211, 215
American Ambassadors, 543
American Bible Society, 319
American Board of Missions, 163, 313
American Consuls, 547
American Missionaries, 41, 115, 268, 278, 342, 388, 511
Anatolia College, 339
Andrassy Note, 253
Angora, 349
Antioch, 447
Arabia, 318, 392
Arabic Version of the Scriptures, 317
Arabi Pasha, 327
Arabkir, 435, 488
Arabs, 98
Ararat, 23
Armenia, 117, 369, 558
Armenian Americans, 341, 548
Armenian Autonomy, 333
Armenian Patriarch, 400
Armenian Question, 330
Armenian Revolutionists. See Huntchagists.
Armenians, 108, 166, 220, 293, 532, 557
Austria, 183, 534
Avshars, 39, 101

Bagdad, 23, 181
Baiburt, 412
Barbarossa, 174
Barnum, Dr. H. N., 428
Barton, Clara, 512, 551
Bedouin Arabs, 39, 99
Beirut, 163, 303
Berlin, Treaty of, 117, 255, 332, 561
Bible House in Constantinople, 248, 319, 512
Bibles Destroyed, 525
Birejik, 470
Bismarck's Famous Dictum, 561
Bitlis, 122, 368, 386, 472
Reformed (Dutch) Church Missions, 318
Bosnia, 250, 256
Brewer, Justice David J., 512
British and Foreign Bible Society, 302, 320
Bryce, Mr. James, 561
Bucharest, Congress of, 205, 212
Bulgaria, 233, 249, 255, 388, 393, 534
Bulgarian Church, 141
Bulgarian Massacres, 267
Bulgarian Question, 330
Byron, Lord, 216
Byzantine Empire, 67, 164

Caliphate Assumed by Turkish Sultan, 171
Capitulations, 185
Carlowitz, Peace of, 178, 194
Catholic Mission Convents, 262
Catholic Missions Established, 190
Catholicos, 119
Censorship, 282, 357
Cesarea, 340, 466, 476, 490

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Chaldeans, 40, 146, 157, 318, 533
Charles V, 185
Chosroes, 109
Christian Sects, 64
Christian Worship Prohibited, 495
Church Missionary Society, 320
Circassians, 39, 100, 120, 407, 532
Cleveland, President, 385, 549
Communal Rights, 168
Constantinople, Capture of, 165
Copts, 158, 267
Crete, 256
Crimean War, 242, 415, 542
Churches Become Mosques, 493
Cyprus, 176, 258
Cyprus Convention, 257, 561, 563
Czar Nicholas, 384

Damascus, 245, 357
Death Penalty for Apostasy, 63
Dersim Kurds, 390, 415
Dervishes, 95
Diarbekir, 148, 464, 490
Disciples of Christ, 319
Divan, The, 175
Dolma-Bagtche, 246
Doria, 174
Druzes, 39, 104, 245, 403

Eastern Rumelia, 256
Eastern Turkey, 529
Edward III, 259
Egypt, 193, 220, 326
English Influence. (See also Stratford de
Redcliffe.) 192, 397, 534, 561, 563
Erzingan, 371, 398
Erzrum, 94, 114, 350, 358, 386, 415
Etchmiadzine, 119
Euphrates College, 427 European Turkey, 529
First Treaty Between Turkey and Europe, 186
First Turkish Parliament, 253
Forced Conversion, 483
Foreigners in Turkey, 41
France, First Treaty with Turkey, 186
France Supports Russia, 562
Francis I, 183
Franks, 188
Free Thought, 335
French Revolution, 206

Georgia, 118, 176
Gladstone on Turkey, 386, 394
Greene, Rev. F. D., 372, 551
Golden Age of Turkish Rule, 172
Greece, 534
Greek Church, 131, 265
Greek Independence, 214
Greek Insurrection, 267
Greek Question, 330
Greeks, 130, 293, 533
Gregory, the Illuminator, 110
Gumushkhand, 412
Gurun, 464
Haireddin Pasha, 325, 565
Hamidieh, Kurdish Cavalry, 97, 121, 369
Harput, 122, 402, 427 477, 490, 516, 545
Hatti Humayoun, 228, 243, 271, 279, 297, 310, 347
Hatti Sherif of Gulhane, 228, 243, 268
Herzegovina, 256
Holy Alliance, 177, 194
Holy Places in Jerusalem, 200, 239
Holy War, 556
Hungary, 172
Hunkiar Iskellessi, Treaty of, 221, 228
Huntchagists, 336, 344, 385, 393, 398, 448, 557

Italy, 534

Jacobites, 39, 147, 309, 318, 474, 477, 533
Janissaries, 165, 192, 218
Jassy, Treaty of, 206
Jebel Tur, 148, 154
Jeddah, 392
Jerusalem. See Holy Places, also 538
Jesuits, 163, 264,
Jews, 40

Kainardji, Treaty of, 182, 205, 240, 266
Kars, 257
Kayayan (Prof.), 339
Kiamil Pasha, 400
Kimball, Dr. Grace, 514
Konieh, 68, 165
Koran, 55, 294
Kurdistan, 557
Kurds, 39, 85, 146, 351, 474
Kutturbul, 496

Layard, Sir Henry, 154, 223, 245
Lazes, 39, 106, 120
Lebanon, 557
Levantines, 42
Louis XIV, 178, 193

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Macedonia, 529
Mahdi, The, 62, 328
Mahmud II, 115, 172, 209, 222, 267, 293, 300, 307, 565
Malatia, 435, 522
Marash, 386, 402, 448, 457. 476, 545
Marco Bozzaris, 215
Mardin, 22, 146, 474
Maronites, 39, 159, 245, 277, 309, 533
Marsovan, 122, 337, 345, 349, 545
Maynard, Horace, 542
Mehemet Ali, 213, 220, 236, 268, 326
Mesopotamia, 530
Metawileh, 39
Midyat, 150
Mohammed, 51
Mohammed II, 166, 260
Mohammedanism, 51, 81
Mongols, 145
Montenegro, 256
Mosque Schools, 282
Mosul, 148, 318, 546
Murad, Sultan, 253, 282
Mush, 368, 386, 472, 505
Napoleon, 207, 535
Napoleon Code, 293
National Armenian Relief Committee, 512, 551
Naturalization Treaty, 548
Nestorian Scholars, 152
Nestorians, 40, 45, 146, 151, 309, 318, 533
Nicomedia, 350, 389,
Nusairiyeh, 39, 101, 318

Osman Pasha, 299
Othman, 69
Ottoman University, 236

Palace Intrigues, 326
Palu, 484, 522
Pan-Slavist Committee, 119, 331
Paris, Treaty of, 242, 310
Passarowitz, Treaty of, 196
Patriarch of Antioch, 147
Patriarch of Babylon, 157
Patriarch of Constantinople, 123
Persia, 152, 158, 176
Peter the Great, 189
Phil-Hellenism, 204, 216
Poland, 192,
Polygamy, 73
Porte. See Sublime Porte.
Presbyterian Board of Missions (North), 163, 317

Rayahs, 153,174
Red Cross Society, 512, 551
Reformed Presbyterian (Covenanter) Mission, 318
Robert College, 248, 312, 315
Roman Government, 166
Rumania, 257
Russian Aggression, 207, 227, 241, 267
Russian Ambassador in Constantinople, 1495. 183
Russian Armenia, 118
Russian Armenian Agitators, 407
Russian Intrigues, 181, 203, 233, 277

Saladin, 93
Salisbury, Lord, 397, 401, 405
San Stephano, Treaty of, 254, 257
San eta Sophia, 133
Saracens, 146
Sassun, 384, 404, 479, 504, 556, 566
Scio, Island of, 191, 215, 267, 547
Scanderbeg, 170
Scotch Missions, 320
Seraglio, 246
Sert, 151, 476
Servia, 170, 233, 256, 267
Sheik-ul-Islam, 281, 297, 300
Sherif of Mecca, 171
Shiahs, 62, 88
Sivas, 464
Sis, 111
Softas, 298, 399, 480
Sobieski, 177, 194
Smyrna, 303
Statistics of Massacres, 553
Straus, Oscar S., 542
Stratford de Redcliffe, Lord, 191, 210, 225, 234, 238, 240, 268
Sublime Porte, 281, 300, 399
Suleiman the Magnificent, 171
Sultans as Caliphs, 167, 294
Sunnis,62, 88
Suez Canal, 327
Sweden, Treaty with, 199
Syria, 245, 530
Syrian Protestant College, 163, 248, 312, 317
Syrians, 145, 267

Tamerlane, 152, 165
Tarsus, 393
Tartars, 145
Terrell, A. W., 513, 520
Thoumaian (Mr.), 339
Tilsit, Peace of, 208

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Trebizond, 406, 476
Turcomans, 39, 447
Turkish Relief Commission, 504
Turkish Version of the Bible, 76
Ulemas, 174, 213, 281, 298
Uniat Chaldean Church, 153
Uniats, 159
United Armenian Church, 163
United Presbyterian Board, 159, 318
Urfa, 109, 148, 460, 476, 487, 546

Vakouf, 283
Van, 22, 368, 3S6, 415, 472, 514
Venetians, 170, 189
Vienna, 173, 177

Wallace, Gen. Lew, 542
Wallachia, 164, 170, 267
William of Orange, 178

Yezidis, 102
Young Turkey Party, 60, 343, 394, 564
Yuzgat, 337, 340, 349, 365

Xeibecks, 39, 101

Zeitun, 45,122, 386, 448,456, 45

 

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Table of Contents | The Cover, Frontispiece, Title Page, Copyright Notice, etc.
Introduction | Preface | Turkey in Asia (map) | Table of Contents (as in the book)
List of Illustrations | 1. The Turkish Empire | 2. Population and Languages | 3. Religions
4. The Turks | 5. The Kurds | 6. The Armenians | 7. The Greeks | 8. Other Oriental Churches
9. Rise and Decline of Ottoman Power | 10. Turkey and Europe | 11. Russia and Turkey
12. Mahmud II | 13. Reform and Progress | 14. Treaties of Paris and Berlin
15. Condition of the Christians | 16. The Turkish Government | 17. Protestant Missions in Turkey
18. The Armenian Question | 19. General Situation in 1894 | 20. The Sassun Massacre
21. Politics and Massacre at Constantinople | 22. Massacres at Trebizond and Erzrum
23. Massacres in Harput District | 24. Aintab, Marash and Urfa | 25. Character of the Massacres
26. Religious Persecution | 27. Relief Work | 28. Partition of Turkey | 29. America and Turkey
30. General Survey | Alphabetical Index

Acknowledgements:

Source: Bliss, Rev. Edwin Munsell . Turkey and the Armenian Atrocities. Edgewood Publishing Company , 1896 Provided by: Aram Arkun, Krikor and Clara Zohrab Information Center Scanned by: Karen Vrtanesyan OCR: Irina Minasyan

See also:

J. Rendel Harris & B. Helen Harris, Letters from the Scenes of the Recent Massacres in Armenia Helen Davenport Gibbons, The Red Rugs of Tarsus Maj. General James G. Harbord Conditions in the Near East: Report of the American Military Mission to Armenia