5912 



TURKEY IN EUROPE. 



On the Bosphorus and 

 Hellespont - - - 



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Provinces. 



Romania, olim 

 Thrace. 



f Macedonia. 



Chief Towns. Si).M» 



j "Constantinople, N. L* 

 41.E.L. 29. 26.880 

 i _ Adrianople 



Strymon 



Contessa 



South of Mount Rho- 



tTenorlh^aft Tjfifi Thessal y> now Janua ' 

 ancient Greece. 



Livadia, the ancient 

 Achaia and Boeotia._ 

 "Epirus. 



On the Adriatic Sea or. 

 Gull of Venice, the<^ Albania 

 ancient Illyricum 



} 



18,989 



> 



I Turkish Croatia. 

 IJD&imatia. - - 



r 



South of the Gulf of 

 Lepanto,the ancient 

 Peloponnesus. 



Salonichi 

 Larissa 

 Athens 

 Thebes 

 Lepanto 

 Chimsera 

 Burtrinto 

 Scodra 

 Durazzo 

 > Dulcigno 

 Bihacz - 

 Zara 

 Narenza 

 ^ Corinth 



} 



4,650 



5,420 



955 



6,375 



3,200 

 3,680 



The Morea 



> 



The ancient Crete 



^Island of Candia. 



Argos 



Napoli di Ro- 

 mania 

 Lacedsemon, 

 now Misitra, 

 on the river 

 Eurotas 



^Olympia or 

 Longinica, on 

 the river Al- 

 pheus, where 

 the games 

 were held 

 Modon 

 Coron 

 Patras 



Elis, orBelvi- 

 dere, on the 

 river Peneus. 

 J Candia. 



>7,22§ 



5,20Q 



Seas and STRAiTs....The Euxine, or Black Sea; the Palus Maeotisj 

 or Sea of Asoph ; the Sea of Marmora, which separates Europe from, 

 Asia; the Archipelago; the Ionean Sea, and the Levant, would, were 

 they properly improved, give to Turkey in Europe, particularly that 

 part of it where Constantinople stands, every advantage both for trade 

 and dominion. The straits of the Hellespont or Dardanelles, and the 

 Bosphorus, or canal of Constantinople, which connect the Sea of Mar- 

 mora with the Archipelago on the one side, and the Black Sea on the 

 other, are remarkable in modern as well as in ancient history. The 

 former^ viz. the Hellespont, or Dardanelles, is only two miles and a, 

 half in breadth, and is famous for the passage of Xerxes over it, when 



