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WITH THE TURKS. 
Greek 
position. 
the crest of a ridge rising from the road on the east 100 to 200 feet 
above the plain. Much labour had been expended in perfecting them 
and making roads into them for the guns. 
With the one exception of the ridge to which such frequent reference 
has been made and which must have served its purpose also as an ex¬ 
cellent range mark for the Greeks, these batteries commanded every 
inch of the dead level plain stretching from the foot of the hills for 
four or five miles to the north. 
The main position of the Greeks seems to have extended along^ths 
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I Kilometre*= 1093*6 Yxrds 
foot of the hills between the village of Purnari 1 on the east 
and Skarmitza on the west for about two miles, a line of shelter 
trenches barring the main road to Dhomokos which traversed the 
centre of it. Both these villages were strongly held and in front of 
Purnari is a low wooded knoll which was also strongly held and which, 
from its position, gave a useful flanking defence. Two Field Batteries 
were placed near the centre of the position as already described. In 
addition the ridges running down from Dhomokos, and connecting 
the main range of the Othrys with the Kasiadiari Mountains south of 
Pharsala, appear to have been held on the Greek right and the village 
of Yelisiades, with the heights above it (about two miles west of 
Dhomokos), on the left. 
1 In this as in oth' r cases I had no means of identifying the names of villages mentioned ; those 
that I have given are, for the most part, taken from the Austrian Staff map. The station of 
Purnari, however, in this map is almost 3 kilometres further north of that here assigned to it, no 
village being shown in the map in an exactly corresponding position, 
