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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... good years its crops of wheat , barley , Indian corn , and tobacco alone represent more than a million sterling . The tithes and muttons ( as the tax on live stock is called ) bring in 200,000 liras , and the 18 ' TWIXT GREEK AND TURK .
... good years its crops of wheat , barley , Indian corn , and tobacco alone represent more than a million sterling . The tithes and muttons ( as the tax on live stock is called ) bring in 200,000 liras , and the 18 ' TWIXT GREEK AND TURK .
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Sir Valentine Chirol. is called ) bring in 200,000 liras , and the local expenditure has been cut down within such narrow limits that the provincial revenue shows an annual surplus of 250,000 liras . Yet withal , the province is ...
Sir Valentine Chirol. is called ) bring in 200,000 liras , and the local expenditure has been cut down within such narrow limits that the provincial revenue shows an annual surplus of 250,000 liras . Yet withal , the province is ...
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... liras a - year ; and as the same amount accrues under the métayer system to the farmers , the share of each household ( consisting of seven souls ) could not be set down at less than sixty liras ( £ 54 ) , -an income which , considering ...
... liras a - year ; and as the same amount accrues under the métayer system to the farmers , the share of each household ( consisting of seven souls ) could not be set down at less than sixty liras ( £ 54 ) , -an income which , considering ...
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... liras , the proceeds of a sale of land . Of this handsome booty Kath- rakia promptly possessed himself ; and then , without even the excuse of baffled greed , pro- ceeded to the most hideous excesses on the three unfortunate children of ...
... liras , the proceeds of a sale of land . Of this handsome booty Kath- rakia promptly possessed himself ; and then , without even the excuse of baffled greed , pro- ceeded to the most hideous excesses on the three unfortunate children of ...
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... liras in gold . The peasants were then marched out between the brigand ranks , and Kathrakia having made his choice of eight -men , women , and children — his horsemen took them up behind them , and the band scam- pered away . In the ...
... liras in gold . The peasants were then marched out between the brigand ranks , and Kathrakia having made his choice of eight -men , women , and children — his horsemen took them up behind them , and the band scam- pered away . In 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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