The Countries of the World: Middle East ; Africa ; EuropeCassell, 1876 |
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... ancient territory is in great part occupied by an alien Asiatic race who have yielded nothing to European culture , and who in four centuries have remained but a military camp of Asiatic hordes , thinly varnished over with Frankish ...
... ancient territory is in great part occupied by an alien Asiatic race who have yielded nothing to European culture , and who in four centuries have remained but a military camp of Asiatic hordes , thinly varnished over with Frankish ...
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... ancient Greece much more than in name . On a map of the country we find comparatively few of the old classical names , and in spite of the region being so long subject to the Turks , not a great number which can be attributed to that ...
... ancient Greece much more than in name . On a map of the country we find comparatively few of the old classical names , and in spite of the region being so long subject to the Turks , not a great number which can be attributed to that ...
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... Ancient fauna of the Pampas , III . 239 Ancient forests of Polar lands , I. 98-100 Ancient idol and altar at Copan , Guatemala , III . * 16 Ancud town , Isle of Chiloe , III . 270 Audacolla , Chili , III . 287 Andalusia , VI . 220 , 236 ...
... Ancient fauna of the Pampas , III . 239 Ancient forests of Polar lands , I. 98-100 Ancient idol and altar at Copan , Guatemala , III . * 16 Ancud town , Isle of Chiloe , III . 270 Audacolla , Chili , III . 287 Andalusia , VI . 220 , 236 ...
Contents
CHAPTER I | 1 |
The Sultans Principal Palace on the Bosphorus | 9 |
TURKEY PROPER | 15 |
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