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... clothes , the solemn beturbaned Turk in flowing kaftan ; for Monastir - or , as the Chris- tian prefers to call it , Bitolia - is the meeting- point of many nations . As on most Macedonian cities , the curse of many tongues , and many ...
... clothes , the solemn beturbaned Turk in flowing kaftan ; for Monastir - or , as the Chris- tian prefers to call it , Bitolia - is the meeting- point of many nations . As on most Macedonian cities , the curse of many tongues , and many ...
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... clothes lies peacefully asleep in a wooden cradle of many colours . The chiftlik of the Tur- kish Bey to whom the village belongs , though he may perhaps count his income by thousands , does not boast much greater luxury . True , a ...
... clothes lies peacefully asleep in a wooden cradle of many colours . The chiftlik of the Tur- kish Bey to whom the village belongs , though he may perhaps count his income by thousands , does not boast much greater luxury . True , a ...
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... with a silver pin ; a bodice of coarse blue cloth trimmed with red embroidered work , and a short petticoat of the same stuff , open down the front , but covered with a red apron , and leggings of quaint 212 ' TWIXT GREEK AND TURK .
... with a silver pin ; a bodice of coarse blue cloth trimmed with red embroidered work , and a short petticoat of the same stuff , open down the front , but covered with a red apron , and leggings of quaint 212 ' TWIXT GREEK AND TURK .
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Twixt Greek and Turk: Or, Jotting During a Journey Through Thessaly ... Valentine Chirol No preview available - 1999 |
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