Twixt Greek and Turk; Or, Jottings During a Journey Through Thessaly, Macedonia, and Epirus in the Autumn of 1880Blackwood, 1881 - 276 páginas |
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... Christian town . The old town of Volo lies north , at the head of the bay . Inside a ruinous fortress , where a few obsolete cannon still peep over the tumble- down walls , there is a Turkish bazaar , some barracks , and perhaps a ...
... Christian town . The old town of Volo lies north , at the head of the bay . Inside a ruinous fortress , where a few obsolete cannon still peep over the tumble- down walls , there is a Turkish bazaar , some barracks , and perhaps a ...
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... Christians Moslems ( Greeks ) . ( Turks ) . Larissa ,. 65,000 21,000 Volo , • 51,000 4,000 Trikalla , 70,000 3,500 Karditza , 48,000 4,800 Elassona , 32,000 5,500 Pharsala , 17,000 4,000 Armyro , 9,000 2,500 292,000 45,300 To these ...
... Christians Moslems ( Greeks ) . ( Turks ) . Larissa ,. 65,000 21,000 Volo , • 51,000 4,000 Trikalla , 70,000 3,500 Karditza , 48,000 4,800 Elassona , 32,000 5,500 Pharsala , 17,000 4,000 Armyro , 9,000 2,500 292,000 45,300 To these ...
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Sir Valentine Chirol. To these 292,000 Christians and 45,300 Mus- sulmans must be added some 6000 Jews , thus forming for Thessaly a grand total of 343,300 souls . The Christians of Thessaly , with the excep- tion of about 20,000 ...
Sir Valentine Chirol. To these 292,000 Christians and 45,300 Mus- sulmans must be added some 6000 Jews , thus forming for Thessaly a grand total of 343,300 souls . The Christians of Thessaly , with the excep- tion of about 20,000 ...
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... Christians , and up till lately the Turkish beys were better liked as masters than the Christian landowners . Possessing generally enormous estates , from which they derived far larger revenues than they required for their expenditure ...
... Christians , and up till lately the Turkish beys were better liked as masters than the Christian landowners . Possessing generally enormous estates , from which they derived far larger revenues than they required for their expenditure ...
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... Christian land- owner , on the other hand , especially when an absentee , was harder to deal with . He had larger wants , and was therefore more grasping ; he was more intelligent , and therefore more fond of pestering for improvements ...
... Christian land- owner , on the other hand , especially when an absentee , was harder to deal with . He had larger wants , and was therefore more grasping ; he was more intelligent , and therefore more fond of pestering for improvements ...
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Acheron Albanian already ancient Blackwood's Magazine brigands Bulgarian century chiftlik Christian Church CLASSICS FOR ENGLISH cliffs cloth Constantinople Crown 8vo Dervish descendants district Dodona Edinburgh Elassona empire ENGLISH READERS Engravings Epirus Fcap fustanellas Government Greece Greek Greek clergy Gulf hand Hellenic hills History houses Illustrations JOHN Kalabaka Kathrakia Kosana land landowners Larissa late League LL.D lofty Macedonia Maps Meteora Metzovo military monastery Monastir Moslem moun Mount Mount Olympus mountains Mussulman northern numerous officials Olympus Ottoman Parga Pasha peasantry peasants peninsula Perlepe Pindus plain of Thessaly Poems population Porte Portrait post 8vo precipitous present Professor prosperity province race ridge rise road rocks Roman ruins Salemvria Salonica scarcely Scotland Second Edition side slopes Suli Suliote Sultan Tchamis Thessaly Third Edition tion town Trikalla Turkey Turkish Turkish rule Turks University of Edinburgh Vale of Tempe valley villages Volo vols vrykolakas Wallachs walls waters
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