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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... Sultan Amurath's picturesque old fortress , the Key of the Seas . From the mouth of the Straits our course lay northwards between the main- land and the rugged islands of Imbros and of Samothraki . Here Neptune was wont of old to sit on ...
... Sultan Amurath's picturesque old fortress , the Key of the Seas . From the mouth of the Straits our course lay northwards between the main- land and the rugged islands of Imbros and of Samothraki . Here Neptune was wont of old to sit on ...
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... Sultan's road " from Volo to Larissa . On reaching the crest of the hills which divide off the seaboard from the plain of Thessaly , one obtains a most lovely view of the town and Gulf of Volo . The bastions and minarets of the Turkish ...
... Sultan's road " from Volo to Larissa . On reaching the crest of the hills which divide off the seaboard from the plain of Thessaly , one obtains a most lovely view of the town and Gulf of Volo . The bastions and minarets of the Turkish ...
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... Sultan's anthem , —a healthy , bright - faced little army , whose joyous voices could still be heard carolling behind us as we wound over the hills , through acres and acres of vineyards . country which we now traversed was an un ...
... Sultan's anthem , —a healthy , bright - faced little army , whose joyous voices could still be heard carolling behind us as we wound over the hills , through acres and acres of vineyards . country which we now traversed was an un ...
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... Sultan ; and when they rose to leave the vizierial tent , two battalions of Turkish troops were drawn up to give them military honours : but instead of the order to present arms , the Grand Vizier gave out of his THE VILAYET OF MONASTIR ...
... Sultan ; and when they rose to leave the vizierial tent , two battalions of Turkish troops were drawn up to give them military honours : but instead of the order to present arms , the Grand Vizier gave out of his THE VILAYET OF MONASTIR ...
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... sultans endowed his tekke , and the dervishes of Baba became a power in the land . But now its prosperity has long been on the wane , though pious Moslems still journey from afar to the holy shrine , and the Christian peas- ants of the ...
... sultans endowed his tekke , and the dervishes of Baba became a power in the land . But now its prosperity has long been on the wane , though pious Moslems still journey from afar to the holy shrine , and the Christian peas- ants of the ...
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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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