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GENERAL INDEX.
historic events of, ib; beauty of shores, 11; entrance
to from Black Sea, 52, description of, 53; palaces
on, 69; rapids of, ib; ii. 20
Brousa, warm baths, i. 28, 29; ii. 51
Buda, ii. 75
Bulgarians, character and habits of, i. 55, 56; ii. minstrels of, 52
Burial, Turkish ceremonies of, i. 24
Buyuk Tchekmadge', or Great Bridge, ii. 58, 61
Byron, Lord, his tomb at Missolonghi, ii. 91
Byzantium, origin of, i. p. ii; taken by the Romans, iii;
chosen by Constantine, iv
C
Caffinet, interior of, i. 59, 61
Caiques, description of, i. 4; hane, ii. 46
Cairo, ii. 44
Caloyers, Greek monks, i. 22; escape of one, 32;
meaning of name, ii. 15
Candaules, king of Lydia, ii. 93
Cannon, enormous one cast by Mahomet II. i. xiv;
fondness of Turks for, 20
Cantacuzen6, allows the Genoea to build a wall round
Galata, i. xii. xxiv *, builds Joannina, ii. 78
Calosso, Italian riding-master, ii. 66
Cara Osman Oglou, family of, ii. 31
Caravanserai, description of, i. 76; at Guzel-hissar, ib.
Carpoos, water-melon, i. 8
Capitan Pasha, ii. 59, 60
Capi Tchocadar, found assassinated, ii. 59
Casas Arptine presents the sultan with steam-boat, ii.62
Casim Pasha, district of, ii. 58, 59
Cavac, general name for melon, i. 8
Cemetery of Scutari, i. 12; extreme beauty of, and
why enlarged, 13; Petit Champ des Morts, 23
Chalcsedon, building of, i. p. i; called City of Blind
Men, p. ii.
Chalki, island of, ii. 21
Chocsecen, castle of Europe, why so called, i. 11
Chrysostom, his chair, ii. 48
Circassia, description of, ii. 55; slaves of, 56
Cistern of Bin-bir-derek, i. 14; Yere-batan Serai',
82,83
Clazomenae, ii. 80
Coal-mine, i. 6
Comneni, family of, i. xxxii; ii. 7
Confectionary, Turkish, i. 34
Constantine, his conversion and success, i.p.iii; family
of, xxviii; ii. 35. 52
Constantinople, building of, i. v; enlarged by Theodosius, vi; attacked by Saracens, vii; taken by
crusaders, ix; devastation of, x; recovered by
Greeks, xi; visited by Genoese, ib; taken by Mahomet II. xv; emperors and sultans of, from time
of dedication to present day, xxviii., xxxvi; view of
Golden Horn, i; description of, 1,2; objects which
strike a stranger in, 59, 60; halls of, 81; ii. 45,
46,58
Crescent, origin of, i. p. ii.
Crete, taken by Mahomet IV. i. 21
Cross on Turkish flags, i. 6
Crusaders, i. viii.; barbarity, ix. x.; where crossed the
Bosphorus, 10
Cybele, statue of, ii. 11
Cyclades of Propontis, ii. 20; anchored in, by Admiral Duckworth, 21 ; resorted to in time of
plague, 22
Cypress, funeral tree of Turks, why, i. 12; attains
a magnificent size, ib.
D
Daniel, robe of purple, ii. 41
Dardanelles, ii. 20
Darius, where he crossed the Bosphorus, i. 10
Delhi Abdalla, anecdotes of, i. 5; Capitan Pasha, ib.
Delhi Delila, description of, ii. 66
Dere' beys, lords of the valleys, ii. 11
Diana, temple of, Ephesus, i. 64; ii. 42
Djami, mosque of, i. 17 ; ii. 49
Diocletian, his persecution, i. p. iii.
Du-kirke, burying place of sultans, ii. 51
Diomedes fed his horses on human flesh, ii. 62
Diospolis, or Laodicea, ii. 86
Divan, why so called, ii. 67; used for court of j ustice, ib.;
galibe* or council - chamber, 69; for payment of
troops, 70 ; reception of foreign ministers, 71
Dj uze Khenana, reciters of the sacred page, ii. 50
Dogs in market-places, i. 8; in Turkish cemeteries, 25
Dolma, a species of gourd, i. 8.
Domosdere, valley of boats, coal-mine at, i. 6 ]
Druno, ii. 81
Ederne, ii. 74
Elizabeth, queen of England, Latin letter to Selim II.
i. xx.
Emir Sultan, Brusa, i. 91; ii. 47
Emperors of Constantinople, family of Constantine,
i. xxviii.; of Jovian, ib.; of Valentinianus, ib.; of
Theodosius, xxix.; of Leo, ib.; of Anastatius, ib.;
of Justinus Thrax, ib.; of Tiberius, ib.; of Phocas,
xxx.; of Heraclius, ib.; of Leo Isaurus, ib. ; of
LeoArmenus,xxxi..; of Michael Balbus, ib.; of Basilius Macedo, xxxii.; of the Comneni, ib.; of Ducas,
xxxiii.; of the Frank family, ib.; of the Palseologi,
xxxiv.
English commence intercourse with Turks, i. xix.
Ephesus, first church of the Apocalypse, i. 63—65;
temple and amphitheatre at, 64; ii. 8—42
Execution of officers of seraglio, i. 41
Euridice, where lamented by Orpheus, ii. 62
Eyoub, or Job, three recognized by Turks, i. 48;
mosque of, 49; inauguration of sultan, ib.; tomb,
50; beauty of place, ib.; ii. 33—48
Ezzan, or call to prayer, i. 16
Fanal, or Greeks of, sent to Princess' Islands, ii. 23;
why so called, 47
Fanariots, Greeks of Fanal, reduced in number, ii. 48 |
