District of E. Berwar. Aina d’Nuni 50 N. Duri 35 N. Ikri & Malakhta 40 N. Bait Baluk 20 N. Four villages, including Halwa, Khwara 50 N. Dirishki 20 N. Maiyi 25 N. Haiyiz 30 N. Bishmeyayi 20 N. Iad 20 N. Tashish 30 N. Musakka 20 N. Three small villages 25 N. Jadeda 15 N. Chalik 30 N. Kaneba Labi 20 N. --- Total 450 450 ------ 11,942 II. _The Highlands of Kurdistan_ Tyari 5,000 Tkhuma 2,500 Baz 800 Tal 700 Diz 600 Jilu 2,500 Berwar (Qudshanis included) 900 Lewan (west of Julamerk) 300 Serai (45 miles east of Van) 300 Eleven villages around Serai 400 Norduz (on Van-Julamerk road) 200 Albak (near Bashkala) 300 Gawar 400 Six villages in Nerwan & Rekan 200 Shemsdinan & Bar Bhishu (estimated) 200 ------ Total families 15,300 15,300 ------ Grand total 27,242 Total individuals at six to a family 163,452 FOOTNOTES: [214] Fully one-third of Armenian consists of words of Persian stock. Some Armenian philologists point to the existence of a small remnant of highly ancient words which cannot be traced to Aryan forms and which probably represent the survival of a language indigenous to the Armenian highlands. [215] H. R. Hall: The Ancient History of the Near East, London, 1913, pp. 31-79. [216] R. Dussaud: Les civilisations préhelléniques dans le bassin de la Mer Egée, Paris, 1914, pp. 414-455. [217] D. G. Hogarth: The Nearer East, New York, 1902, p. 102. [218] D. G. Hogarth: Ionia and the Near East, Oxford, 1909; J. L. Myres: Greek Lands and the Greek People, Oxford, 1910. [219] In many of these Anatolian communities Greek is written with Turkish characters.