This is a history of one of the oldest empires in history.
The nations around are eager for the possession of a country thus situated; it is.
Into such regions, and to their cost, neighbouring peoples come from century to century to settle their quarrels and bring to an issue the questions of supremacy which disturb their little corner of the world.
From the First chapter: "Some countries seem destined from their origin to become the battle-fields of the contending nations which environ them.
This is a history of one of the oldest empires in history