pe;asants .resting in street 



PEASANTS IN CONSTANTINOPEE 



Photos by H. G. Dwight 



Constantinople is a city of all manner of races and of tribes, which dwell beside but 

 not among one another. Turk, Albanian, Kurd, Serb, Greek, and Armenian come from the 

 provinces and other cities to form the Turkish capital, but they preserve there the customs, 

 native garbs, characteristics, and languages of their kind, never assimilating to the city's 

 type, for the city has no type. Constantinople is a babel of all of the peoples and fragments 

 of peoples that enter into the swarming life of the Near East. 



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