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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... field after field of stubble , and wide tracts of land lying fallow , with here and there a marshy swamp , the brash- owka jolts along for six weary hours towards the distant minarets which mark Larissa , and seem to recede phantom ...
... field after field of stubble , and wide tracts of land lying fallow , with here and there a marshy swamp , the brash- owka jolts along for six weary hours towards the distant minarets which mark Larissa , and seem to recede phantom ...
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... fields . " - ( Notes by Colonel Synge respecting the state of the Peasant Farmers in Thessaly . Par- liamentary Blue - book Greece , No. 1 : 1880. ) It is the memory of recent spoliation , not the oppression of the present landlords ...
... fields . " - ( Notes by Colonel Synge respecting the state of the Peasant Farmers in Thessaly . Par- liamentary Blue - book Greece , No. 1 : 1880. ) It is the memory of recent spoliation , not the oppression of the present landlords ...
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... fields must lie fallow . But the bey , who had hitherto been generally ready to advance money to his farmers on rea- sonable terms , hardens his heart against them , and declines to loosen his purse - strings . " Who knows , " he says ...
... fields must lie fallow . But the bey , who had hitherto been generally ready to advance money to his farmers on rea- sonable terms , hardens his heart against them , and declines to loosen his purse - strings . " Who knows , " he says ...
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... fields and rich pasture - lands , broken only here and there by the glistening waters of a swampy lake or the silver thread of the Pen- eus meandering lazily across the flat . Turning northwards , we seemed to have a reflection of the ...
... fields and rich pasture - lands , broken only here and there by the glistening waters of a swampy lake or the silver thread of the Pen- eus meandering lazily across the flat . Turning northwards , we seemed to have a reflection of the ...
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... fields of maize , with a double background of purple mountains ; and close upon us , on the right , the giant but- tresses of Olympus , rising almost sheer from the plain , with dark patches of forest hanging here and there on the ...
... fields of maize , with a double background of purple mountains ; and close upon us , on the right , the giant but- tresses of Olympus , rising almost sheer from the plain , with dark patches of forest hanging here and there on 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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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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