The state bed of Sobieski, King of Poland, was made of Smyrna gold brocade embroidered in turquoises with verses from the Koran. Its supports were of silver gilt, beautifully chased, and profusely set with enamelled and jewelled medallions. It had been taken from the Turkish camp bef...
Adrianople,Adrianopolis,Edirne- a city in northwestern Turkey; a Thracian town that was rebuilt and renamed by the Roman Emperor Hadrian Kurdistan- an extensive geographical region in the Middle East to the south of the Caucasus Abydos- an ancient Greek colony on the Asiatic side of the Dardanel...
Mimnermos [Greek poet C6th B.C.], who composed elegiac verses about the battle between the Smyrnaians and the Lydians under Gyges, says in the preface that the elder Mousai (Muses) are daughters of Ouranos (Uranus, Sky), and that there are other and younger Mousai, children of Zeus....
We inquired, and learned that the lions of Smyrna consisted of the ruins of the ancient citadel, whose broken and prodigious battlements frown upon the city from a lofty hill just in the edge of the town--the Mount Pagus of Scripture, they call it; the site of that one of the Seven ...
Focuses on the redevelopment of Smyrna in Georgia. Outlook on economic development projects; Completion of the fire department headquarters; Rise of single-family housing construction; Criticisms against the development; Account on the industrial history an...
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In every town, he left the formerly affluent youth, torn from the circle he adorned, cursing, in the solitude of a dungeon, the fate that had drawn him within the reach of this fiend; whilst many a father sat frantic, amidst the speaking looks of mute hungry children, without a single...
Franklin is located 20 miles south of Nashville. Read more Smyrna Murfreesboro Franklin Clarksville Clarksville, Tennessee, in Montgomery County, is a bustling city built by the tobacco trade. The Customs House Museum & Cultural Center, in the city's historic district, was originally ...
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The Greeks, and those relying on them, had their chance, and they even thought they could march into the interior of Anatolia from Smyrna. But what they met were the battle-hardened veterans of Gallipoli, commanded by their very commander, the resolute Mustafa Kemal -- who destroyed the Gree...