Photo from George Kennan 



GEORGIAN WOMAN IN NATIONAL, DRESS 



T • u^l^^^ ^^ ^^^ south of Daghestan, and for 2,000 years was an independent kingdom. 

 ^^Tv? 1 ^^^"^^ ^^^ ^"^^ Caucasians and often singularly handsome, and so during the period 

 of Moslem dommation Georgia supplied great numbers of female slaves for Turkish harems 

 and recruits for the famous corps of Mamelukes. 



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