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Rh The long range of the Persian Mountains bends westward round the upper end of Mesopotamia and becomes the Taurus Range, Democratic Ideals and Reality, 1919 Fig 24 p 135.jpg 24.—The Heartland, with the addition of the basins of the Black and Baltic Seas, and of the uppermost (plateau) valleys of the Chinese and Indian rivers.

which is the high southern brink of the peninsular upland of Asia Minor. The surface of Asia Minor is a patch of steppes, verging on desert in the centre, where salt lakes receive