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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... Government could not allow travellers to expose themselves to dangers such as Colonel Synge had but recently experienced , and from which he had been rescued only with difficulty and at great public loss . Moreover , the popular feel ...
... Government could not allow travellers to expose themselves to dangers such as Colonel Synge had but recently experienced , and from which he had been rescued only with difficulty and at great public loss . Moreover , the popular feel ...
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... Government in its former proposals , has long been looked upon as a foregone conclusion by Greeks and Turks alike . There is neither ex- ultation on the one hand , nor despondency on the other , both having been long since dis- counted ...
... Government in its former proposals , has long been looked upon as a foregone conclusion by Greeks and Turks alike . There is neither ex- ultation on the one hand , nor despondency on the other , both having been long since dis- counted ...
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... Government buildings , and a quaint , square clock - tower of Latin construction , form an imposing group , over which looms in the far distance the clean- cut angular peak of Ossa . Should the traveller wish to carry away with him a ...
... Government buildings , and a quaint , square clock - tower of Latin construction , form an imposing group , over which looms in the far distance the clean- cut angular peak of Ossa . Should the traveller wish to carry away with him a ...
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... Government has to grapple are of another and more stubborn order - viz . , financial and administrative . Thes- saly , as I before stated , is one of the richest provinces of the empire . In good years its crops of wheat , barley ...
... Government has to grapple are of another and more stubborn order - viz . , financial and administrative . Thes- saly , as I before stated , is one of the richest provinces of the empire . In good years its crops of wheat , barley ...
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... Government contractors alone the author- ities at Larissa owed in October last 150,000 liras ; and so absolutely had the uncertainty of the political situation and the unscrupulous financial measures of the present Grand Vizier ...
... Government contractors alone the author- ities at Larissa owed in October last 150,000 liras ; and so absolutely had the uncertainty of the political situation and the unscrupulous financial measures of the present Grand Vizier ...
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Twixt Greek and Turk; Or, Jottings During a Journey Through Thessaly ... Sir Valentine Chirol Visualização integral - 1881 |
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