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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... rule the waves in Besika Bay . All along the northern shores of the Ægean from Dédéagatch to Cavalla , between the sea and the wild mountain - range of the Rhodope , there stretches one of the richest tracts of land in European Turkey ...
... rule the waves in Besika Bay . All along the northern shores of the Ægean from Dédéagatch to Cavalla , between the sea and the wild mountain - range of the Rhodope , there stretches one of the richest tracts of land in European Turkey ...
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... rule , and within certain limits , he was an easy - going master . The 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 ...
... rule , and within certain limits , he was an easy - going master . The 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 ...
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... rule had been vigorously denounced over coffee and cigarettes by patriotic Hellenes . Coffee and cigarettes had inspired the eloquence of Turkish landowners protesting against the revolutionary tendencies of Greek annexation- ists . I ...
... rule had been vigorously denounced over coffee and cigarettes by patriotic Hellenes . Coffee and cigarettes had inspired the eloquence of Turkish landowners protesting against the revolutionary tendencies of Greek annexation- ists . I ...
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... rule might still enjoy in the eyes of Europe . To be captured by brigands is no doubt a novel and fascinating sensation : but excitement may be purchased too dearly , and I was not inclined to pay for it with UNDER THE SHADOW OF OLYMPUS ...
... rule might still enjoy in the eyes of Europe . To be captured by brigands is no doubt a novel and fascinating sensation : but excitement may be purchased too dearly , and I was not inclined to pay for it with UNDER THE SHADOW OF OLYMPUS ...
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... rule , and , so far , a blissful con- summation . But the national feeling was strong among them . " We are a small nation , " one of their spokesmen said , " and can scarcely 1 hope for independence : therefore , better be de- perdent ...
... rule , and , so far , a blissful con- summation . But the national feeling was strong among them . " We are a small nation , " one of their spokesmen said , " and can scarcely 1 hope for independence : therefore , better be de- perdent ...
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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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