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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... valley of the Vistritza and the plains of Macedonia . To descend from the mouth of the gorge is impos- sible ; so we kept on along this lofty plateau for another two or three miles , and presently des- cried a cleft in the mountain ...
... valley of the Vistritza and the plains of Macedonia . To descend from the mouth of the gorge is impos- sible ; so we kept on along this lofty plateau for another two or three miles , and presently des- cried a cleft in the mountain ...
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... a town in the narrow valley where it lies , cramped up between two spurs of Mount Nidje , no place of importance appears to be mentioned in this locality . Possibly the tradition has been invented 66 ' TWIXT GREEK AND TURK .
... a town in the narrow valley where it lies , cramped up between two spurs of Mount Nidje , no place of importance appears to be mentioned in this locality . Possibly the tradition has been invented 66 ' TWIXT GREEK AND TURK .
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... valley ; graceful domes and minarets , stately barracks , and clusters of bright white houses , hedged in with dark - green walnut - trees and glistening silver poplars and orchards rich with all the varied hues of autumn , while ...
... valley ; graceful domes and minarets , stately barracks , and clusters of bright white houses , hedged in with dark - green walnut - trees and glistening silver poplars and orchards rich with all the varied hues of autumn , while ...
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... valley of the Black Drin - demons who have the fanaticism of crime , and defy even the authority of the League . To the east Bulgarian marauders render the roads unsafe , and commit here and there desperate excesses ; but none of them ...
... valley of the Black Drin - demons who have the fanaticism of crime , and defy even the authority of the League . To the east Bulgarian marauders render the roads unsafe , and commit here and there desperate excesses ; but none of them ...
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... valley of the Vardar ; and the bell of a quaint old clock - tower in the market - place of Perlepe was only just striking six à la Turque ( about noon , European time ) as we cantered across the bridge which spans one of the headwaters ...
... valley of the Vardar ; and the bell of a quaint old clock - tower in the market - place of Perlepe was only just striking six à la Turque ( about noon , European time ) as we cantered across the bridge which spans one of the headwaters ...
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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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