Well, the scale length is short enough to comfortably play chords in "5th's" tuning(vs 4ths). I recently tried an Ibanez tenor guitar in 5ths and felt the scale length was too long for that, for me/my hands, anyway. http://www.ibanez.com/products/u_ag_page15.php?year=2015&cat_id=3&series_id=83&data_id=9&color=CL01
That is a 580mm or 22.8346".
I used to have a really nice '50s Harmony tenor TG1201 and would like to replace it. I just looked that up and it was 23" scale and "came" tuned in 5ths.
http://harmony.demont.net/model.php?id=25
 
Czech, Hungarian, Greek or "from that region, was what I initially thought, too.
 
PS    As I looked through that Harmony link, I discovered mine had to be early '60s at the oldest.

Thanks for all the replies everyone, m at work so can't chat, but tonight I give a go at a recording and post. 
 

Here's a sample recording I did on my DR 40 I didn't practice , just made it up on the spot.. so it sucks....:) 
 
https://soundcloud.com/john-vere/test-the-domra
 
 
 

well, i'm not a "real" folk player, but allt his project was recorded in sonar 8.5:
 
"Around the World in 80 Instruments"
 
https://www.youtube.com/p...8583JyKcdlZt6yfuGaVeW4

Cool idea for a music project. 
It's one of my favourite parts of the Musical Instrument Museum in Scottsdale is that you wear these headphones that pick up the audio at each display. You get the hear what each instrument sounds like as you walk around.
 http://mim.org/?gclid=CjwKEAjwydK_BRDK34GenvLB61YSJACZ8da3ADXrdBioqQZ3NpaujmsmftfjxPf1nJCPHRlUzp0qjRoCrW7w_wcB