Researches in the Highlands of Turkey: Including Visits to Mounts Ida, Athos, Olympus, and Pelion, to the Mirdite Albanians, and Other Remote Tribes : with Notes on the Ballads Tales, and Classical Superstitions of the Modern Greeks, Volume 2J. Murray, 1869 |
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Researches in the Highlands of Turkey: Including Visits to Mounts ..., Volume 2 Henry Fanshawe Tozer Visualização completa - 1869 |
Researches in the Highlands of Turkey: Including Visits to Mount ..., Volume 2 Henry Fanshawe Tozer Visualização completa - 1869 |
Researches in the Highlands of Turkey; Including Visits to Mounts ..., Volume 2 Henry Fanshawe Tozer Visualização completa - 1869 |
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Ægean Albanian ancient appears Armatoles ascent Athos ballads Bunarbashi Byzantine called CHAP character Charon Christian church Clefts corresponding death derived descended described distance district Dodona dragons Drakos existed feet gorge Greece ground Hahn hegumen height Hellenic Homer horses idea Iliad inhabitants Kalabaka Kanalia lake Larissa Leake Leo Allatius Märchen mentioned Meteora miles modern Greek monastery Monastir monks mother Mount Mount Olympus mountain mouth neighbourhood neighbouring Nereids Nezero night Northern Greece occupied Olympus original Ossa Pasha pass passage Passow peak Pelion Peneius Pindus plain poems popular position probably race Rapsani reached regarded remarkable ridge river rocks Roman ruins Salonica Scamander scene seems seen side slopes songs Sparmos steep story Strabo stream Suli Suliotes summit supposed Thessaly thou tion town trees Troy Turkey Turkish Turks valley village Volo vrykolaka Wallachian Wallachs Zagora καὶ τοῦ
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