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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... cliff , under the shadow of a picturesque old fortress , which is certain- ly more adapted nowadays for ornament than for use a wealthy town withal , where Greek traders and Turkish landowners reside in that good - fellowship which is ...
... cliff , under the shadow of a picturesque old fortress , which is certain- ly more adapted nowadays for ornament than for use a wealthy town withal , where Greek traders and Turkish landowners reside in that good - fellowship which is ...
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... cliffs , which only fall away towards the north - west to allow access to the plains of Thessaly , the gulf is sheltered like a lake from the winter storms which have made the Ægean famosum tempestate mare ; though now and again ...
... cliffs , which only fall away towards the north - west to allow access to the plains of Thessaly , the gulf is sheltered like a lake from the winter storms which have made the Ægean famosum tempestate mare ; though now and again ...
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... cliff such as that we had just scaled , the small town of Elassona . It is in this basin that the pure Wallach element begins . In Elassona itself there are , out of four or five hundred houses , perhaps one - third of Mussulmans ; but ...
... cliff such as that we had just scaled , the small town of Elassona . It is in this basin that the pure Wallach element begins . In Elassona itself there are , out of four or five hundred houses , perhaps one - third of Mussulmans ; but ...
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... cliffs which rise like a wall over the last houses of the town . A narrow gorge , cleft by a mountain torrent , leads to the brow of this second ridge , and a more lovely view than that which awaited us on emerging from the ravine can ...
... cliffs which rise like a wall over the last houses of the town . A narrow gorge , cleft by a mountain torrent , leads to the brow of this second ridge , and a more lovely view than that which awaited us on emerging from the ravine can ...
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... cliffs of lime and sand stone rise on either side of the Saran- toporos to a height of 200 and 300 feet ; moun- tain - ash rich with red berries , stunted oak , and a score of different shrubs , grow , as it were , out of the live rock ...
... cliffs of lime and sand stone rise on either side of the Saran- toporos to a height of 200 and 300 feet ; moun- tain - ash rich with red berries , stunted oak , and a score of different shrubs , grow , as it were , out of the live rock ...
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Twixt Greek and Turk; Or, Jottings During a Journey Through Thessaly ... Sir Valentine Chirol Visualização integral - 1881 |
Twixt Greek and Turk: Or, Jotting During a Journey Through Thessaly ... Valentine Chirol Pré-visualização indisponível - 1999 |
'Twixt Greek and Turk, Or, Jottings During a Journey Through Thessaly ... Valentine Chirol, Sir Pré-visualização indisponível - 2016 |
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Acheron Albanian ancient ANGELES THE UNIVERSITY Author Blackwood's Magazine brigands Bulgarian CALIFORN century chiftlik Christian Church CLASSICS FOR ENGLISH cliffs cloth Constantinople Crown 8vo Dervish district Dodona Edinburgh Elassona ENGLISH READERS Engravings Epirus Fcap fustanellas Government Greece Greek Greek clergy Gulf hand HE-LIBRARY Hellenic hills History horses houses Illustrations JOHN Kalabaka Kathrakia Kosana land landowners Larissa late LIBRARY LL.D lofty Macedonia Maps Meteora Metzovo military monastery Monastir Moslem Mount Mount Olympus mountains Mussulman numerous officials OLIPHANT Olympus Parga Pasha peasantry peasants peninsula Perlepe Pindus plain of Thessaly Poems population Porte Portrait post 8vo precipitous Professor province race ridge road rocks Roman ruins Salemvria Salonica scarcely Scotland Second Edition slopes Suli Suliote Sultan Tchamis Thessaly Third Edition tion town Trikalla Turkey Turkish Turkish rule Turks UNIVERSITY LOS ANGELES University of Edinburgh Vale of Tempe valley villages Volo vols vrykolakas Wallachs walls