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BITLIS , or BETrLrs (Arm. Paghesh), the chief
Tigris . The main part of the town and the bazaars are crowded alongside the stream, while suburbs with scattered houses among orchards and gardens extend up two tributary streams. The houses are massive and well built of a soft volcanic tufa, and with their courtyards and gardens climbing up the hillsides afford a striking picture. At the junction of two streams in the centre of the town is a fine old castle, partly ruined, which, according to local tradition, occupies the site of a fortress built by Alexander the Great
inscriptions appear on the walls, but as the town stands on the principal highway between the Van plateau
Kurdish beys and sheiks have much influence in the town and wild mountain districts adjoining, while the Sasun mountains, the scene of successive Armenian revolutions of late
late
A good road runs southward down the pass, passing after a few miles some large chalybeate and sulphur
Trebizond
chief
Manna
The Bitlis vilayet comprises a very varied section of Asiatic Turkey, as it includes the Mush plain and the plateau
Tigris . The mountains have been little explored, but are believed to be rich in minerals, iron, lead, copper, traces of gold and many mineral
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