The Countries of the World: Middle East ; Africa ; EuropeCassell, 1876 |
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... European Powers to a degree that has caused much anxiety . Here and there European settlements have been carved out of its pestilential shore . Then adjoining Sierra Leone is Liberia , a republic of American negroes , and immediately ...
... European Powers to a degree that has caused much anxiety . Here and there European settlements have been carved out of its pestilential shore . Then adjoining Sierra Leone is Liberia , a republic of American negroes , and immediately ...
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... European and Asiatic Governments as a dividing line at all . Europe is also a colony of Asia . But as one of the most recent writers on the subject remarks , it is the chief peninsula of Asia , in the same way that the head is a ...
... European and Asiatic Governments as a dividing line at all . Europe is also a colony of Asia . But as one of the most recent writers on the subject remarks , it is the chief peninsula of Asia , in the same way that the head is a ...
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... EUROPE : THE COMPOSITION OF ITS NATIONALITIES . WHENCE came the European races ? We have seen that they are immigrants , but as to the exact part of Asia from whence they migrated to the more fertile and happier lands of the West it is ...
... EUROPE : THE COMPOSITION OF ITS NATIONALITIES . WHENCE came the European races ? We have seen that they are immigrants , but as to the exact part of Asia from whence they migrated to the more fertile and happier lands of the West it is ...
Contents
CHAPTER I | 1 |
The Sultans Principal Palace on the Bosphorus | 9 |
TURKEY PROPER | 15 |
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