Two hundred -and seventy thousand. little more than onehaltf -the population of Washington. Some 75.000 have been repatriated from -the Syrian and Mesopotamian side. and others are slowly returning from other regions. and some from one cause or another remained in the country. There are in the Transcaucasus probably 800.000 refugees from Turkish Armenia. and some thousands more in other lands. for they have drifted to al parts of the Near East. We estimate a total of perhaps half a million refugee Armenians as available to eventually begin life anew in a region about the size of New -York. Pennsylvania. and Ohio. to which would be added those not :refugees. who might return from other lands. a * * This transcaucaslan region is ethnographically one of the mostcom.plicated in the world. In all ages it has been one of the great highways for mankind. Here stragglers and racial remnants have lodged during all the centuries that -the tides of migration have swept the base lof the great Caucasus Range. until today its small area contains five great racial groups. divided into some 40 distinct races.
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