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TABRIZ, the capital of the province of Azerbaijan in Persia, situated in the valley of the Aji Chai, " Bitter River," at an elevation of 4400 ft. in 38° 4' N., 46° 18' E. Based on a census taken in 1871 the population of Tabriz was in 1881 estimated at 165,000 ...

TABARIN (Fr. tabard, Ital. labarrino, a small cloak), the name assumed by Jean Salomon (c. 1584-1633), a Parisian street charlatan, who amused his audiences in the Place Dauphine by farcical dialogue with his partner Mondor (Phillippe Girard), with whom he rea

TARAI, or TERAI (i.e. " moist land "), the name of the submontane strip of marshy jungle stretching beneath the lower ranges of the Himalaya in northern India. This strip may be said to extend roughly from the Jumna river on the west to the Brahmaputra on the

... ium for central Asian and Indian merchandise, which was forwarded to Europe via Tabriz, Trebizond and the Black Sea, and also by way of the Caucasus and the Volga. Since the beginning of the 1 6th century, when Persia fell under the sway of the Safavis, the pl ...

... , and resulted in adding to his dominions Belgrade, Budapest, Temesvar, Rhodes, Tabriz, Bagdad, Nakshivan and Rivan, Aden and Algiers, and in his days Turkey attained the culminating point of her glory. The alliance concluded by him with France reveals him at ...

... 67 at Isfahan, disabled by an accidental pistolshot, and in October started for Tabriz, but died on the way at Miyana on the 28th of November 1667. Thfivenot was an accomplished linguist, skilled in Turkish, Arabic and Persian, and a curious and diligent obser ...