BITLIS

[s. 110] : A city of Eastern Turkey, 150 miles southwest of Erzerum. Climate, healthy, dry. Population, 25,000, Mohammedan Kurds and Turks and Christian Armenians. Its situation among the mountains of Kurdistan is peculiarly beautiful, and surrounded as it is by high peaks, it served for a long time as the virtual capital of the Kurds. The rough, turbulent character of the people has often occasioned trouble and even danger; a ma acre of Armenians occurred in the: city in 1895. Station of the (1859), with 1 mi ionary and his wife, 3 mi ionary women, 29 native workers, men and \women, 12 outstations, 9 chapels, 3 Sunday schools, 19 village schools, 2 high schools, 1 industrial school, and 250 church ABCFM members. 110