NAKHICHEVAN.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 12757, 29 September 1919, Page 4

NAKHICHEVAN.

OLDEST TOV/H IN WORLD, WHERE NOAH SETTLED. toTrn m the world, the city i; 11 ” 1 at thp f oot of Mount ***** of Trans! JSJ X ?ah Uttfcd ,3* w,™ ll^'Sd?JT ! ' !*».«• ** has thn ti r ana Dlrds -~ - noon Commilt^to^r^nS 0 AlJle : SKJSfS SS3»d« transmitted bv til V!m - ;md President w;U on hj or S anisat 'ion to Kochs Kbn'i o Tnr+ i ■ - tain and tJir p r ; mA n v‘ . cruet-hiche-an n.Vr- e ® N- ilnister of NakUnited States 4 res , iaent of thePromo hicrhncU £7 tho " yoi,r sn * : n- nr,,; ~ • ‘- ‘ the money, cioH-refl-af by KlSs U Jaffcr Moolis S'™ ™.v of hnman]tr‘\ U proorG-« n I,al > ™?br,y God vfU° m Al * -npreme ExcelV-ncW hfe to .\ eur ; bat in fnr- r„t , 1 ' i e are confident rant of humaftDv 0 I the rer ' Slate a guiding i^ n Pf eDd ‘P oar Nakhichevan is a, ’Mramin4iV--''nf r? ian Armenia, in t i*o of Ruf ' Eriran -m-i Ji . T ROieminent or n-vV JJ’+i"- n “ o j S-ixy-nve miles «. 01ir] ,. ";* st °f the town n f ] ro n - r the foot o? +i,„ ;'.'*n. It. lies at "Z ’ 1 ? l e f-f * n onnlnin from -n-Kh.i-G-0 n fArfl' +l,-1 . •' I V the dove, to see if tto 7 '- 3S h9en rebuilt a°raS h-, ' illd is now fnlj r) f iviif Sr™ 0 ' ° vidences of former pro^l Its prosperity hr the end'of century, when it mas mb] lo U,' 'rH ?. r°? Td atioii of -10 GCO" and To W ,p ° n an insert »nt. In;de ~Mr P fi,r Tfif ril? ? ,ta P ' ?r;:ia and Turkov! ] R f-1 '■ f 1 o' n . AVas rapture;! bv Alp ■tslnn, the Sujtnn of the Pel-ink Turks’ r . n the thirteen*?! cenf.j;»m it f P n tf p th ° 3 ‘° ! f ° L ll . crcifS *of Oeudf .'■ban. From that period it dor-lined in importance R? d suffered greatly i n the arions mars .-vt-vecn the Por»iV n , ‘r nennns and Turks. Jt WieVpart tire Russian Empire, bv the nc-’f" °f iurkmanchai. in 1828.‘but has MoSimSf m ° re ° r lcss

The tradition that the town was set ~.e.cl bj .Noah goes bark as far as Ar. nienian and Persian tradition can‘be I I rhere is a great mound ot j. th in tee centre of the town. which mignms still visit. aR X oall ’ s nrnre an 3 spot where he offered sacrifices to * , % t f r comm.- safely out, of the -r,i. The present houses ot the town are mostly quarried from ancient, mins and there are many remains of ancient Arrnenion and Persian palaces. Of the nalace of the princes of Akorbaijnn there remains a gatewav with a Persian inscription .nanued bv two brick towers and at a little distance from the rat"! way is the Tower of tho Khans, richlv decora ted and dating from the five if th century. Tnere are also the mins of a lame mosque. The town J s on the hisrh road to labrm and Teheran, and has a considerable transit trade. Its population now is between 8000 and 10 000‘ mostly tartars and Armenians, who earn- on gardening, make wino and produce -mlt. silk and millstones. :