This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1871 Excerpt: ...a mest important station on the great route between Constantinople and Belgrade; Ternova, the old capital of Bulgaria, and still important as the point of transit across the Balkan; and Babadagh, the chief town of the Dobrudscha. The great fortresses of Bulgaria, Shnmla, Kustcb.uk, Silistria, and Widdin are among the ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1871 Excerpt: ...a mest important station on the great route between Constantinople and Belgrade; Ternova, the old capital of Bulgaria, and still important as the point of transit across the Balkan; and Babadagh, the chief town of the Dobrudscha. The great fortresses of Bulgaria, Shnmla, Kustcb.uk, Silistria, and Widdin are among the most populous and important of the Turkish towns. Noteworthy Objects.--Constantinople, the Mosque of St. Sophia, originally a Christian church, erected by Justinian 531-8, in the form of a Greek cross, with fine bronze gates and variegated marble floor. Tho Mosque of Achmet, a yet finer building with 6 minarets, situated on tho old Hippodrome (Ah-Meidan), the scene of the massacre of the Janizaries. The subterranean reservoir of the " thousand and one" columns. The New Seraglio or Royal Palace, on the shores of the Bosporus, in lieu of the old one which was burnt in 1863. Adrianople, the Mosque of Selim II., reputed the finest in the world, with porphyry pillars and 4 minarets: the Bazar of Ali Pacha with an arcade about j mile long. Mt. Athos, remarkable for its religious establishments, 20 monasteries founded between 968 and 1375, 11 Sketes or monastic villages, and 190 cells, occupied by 6000 monks and seculars. Meteora, near Kalabak in Thessaly, a remarkable monastery perched on the summit of a rock 300 ft. high, with no means of access to it except by a rope. Mostar, in Herzegowina, an old Roman bridge with a single span of 95 ft. Remains of Trajan's Bridge over the Danube, 18 m. below Orsova, 13 out of 20 original piers still standing; and Trajan's Wall, between he Lower Danube and the Black Sea, inclosing the Dobrudscha. Historical Aisociutions.--Constantinople, founded by Constantine the Great in 830, on the site of the old By...
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