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... town , built up against the side of a precipitous rock- white houses interspersed with the dark - green of myrtle and orange groves , and the domes and minarets of churches and mosques rising in ter- races above the sheer sea - cliff ...
... town , built up against the side of a precipitous rock- white houses interspersed with the dark - green of myrtle and orange groves , and the domes and minarets of churches and mosques rising in ter- races above the sheer sea - cliff ...
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... town . As we steamed out of its peaceful little bay the shades of evening were slowly creeping over the quaint old town . But the warm sunlight still lingered on the neigh- bouring island of Thasos ; and the long ridge of Mount Ipsario ...
... town . As we steamed out of its peaceful little bay the shades of evening were slowly creeping over the quaint old town . But the warm sunlight still lingered on the neigh- bouring island of Thasos ; and the long ridge of Mount Ipsario ...
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... towns and villages . In the whole history of the last Turco Russian war , there is no more thrilling chapter than that which records the long and heroic resistance offered by the Moslem popu- lations of the Rhodope to the advance of the ...
... towns and villages . In the whole history of the last Turco Russian war , there is no more thrilling chapter than that which records the long and heroic resistance offered by the Moslem popu- lations of the Rhodope to the advance of the ...
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... the mountain gullies and lash its deep - blue waters into transient fury , to the discomfiture of the puny native craft . Presently the town of Volo itself comes into sight , stretching in a long white FROM CONSTANTINOPLE TO LARISSA . 9.
... the mountain gullies and lash its deep - blue waters into transient fury , to the discomfiture of the puny native craft . Presently the town of Volo itself comes into sight , stretching in a long white FROM CONSTANTINOPLE TO LARISSA . 9.
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... towns along the basin of the Mediterranean , is really composed of two distinct towns - the old Turkish and the modern Christian town . The old town of Volo lies north , at the head of the bay . Inside a ruinous fortress , where a few ...
... towns along the basin of the Mediterranean , is really composed of two distinct towns - the old Turkish and the modern Christian town . The old town of Volo lies north , at the head of the bay . Inside a ruinous fortress , where a few ...
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