 ... again. The circumstance most striking to a traveller passing through Turkey is its depopulation. Ruins, where villages had been built, and fallows where land had been cultivated, are frequently seen, with no living things near them. This effect is...  Southern Review - Page 2501829Full view - About this book
 | Robert Walsh - Balkan Peninsula - 1828 - 492 pages
...again. The circumstance most striking to a traveller passing through Turkey is its depopulation. Ruins, where villages had been built, and fallows where land...eighteen months, three sanguinary revolutions took place, 221 which destroyed two Sultans, and about thirty thousand of the inhabitants. These were followed... | |
 | 1828 - 502 pages
..." The circumstance most striking to a traveller passing through Turkey, is its depopulation, Ruins, where villages had been built, and fallows where land...larger towns, though the cause is known to operate (here in a still greater degree. Within the last twenty years, Constantinople has lost more than half... | |
 | 1829 - 436 pages
..." The circumstance most striking to a traveller passing through Turkey, is its depopulation. Ruins, where villages had been built, and fallows where land...destroyed two sultans, and about thirty thousand of the inhahitants. These were followed by the plague in 1812, which swept away, according to some,,two, and... | |
 | 1829 - 590 pages
.... The circumstance most striking to a traveller passing through Turkey is its depopulation. Ruins, where villages had been built, and fallows where land...frequently seen, with no living things near them.' — p. S21. It is pretty much the same in all the provinces and pashalicks. Some of the most fertile... | |
 | 1831 - 460 pages
...Turkey, is i" depopulation. Ruins, where villageshad been built, and fallows where land Lid THE OLIO. been cultivated, are frequently seen, with no living...towns, though the cause is known to operate there in a stiti greater degree. Within the last twenty years, Constantinople has lost n;ore than half its population.... | |
 | Robert Walsh - Balkan Peninsula - 1831 - 406 pages
...again. The circumstance most striking to a traveller passing through Turkey is its depopulation. Ruins, where villages had been built, and fallows where land...them. This effect is not so visible in larger towns, iliough the cause is known to operate there in a still greater degree. Within the last twenty years,... | |
 | Alexander Keith - 1832 - 338 pages
...ambassador) — " most striking to a traveller passing through Turkey, is its depopulation, • Ruins where villages had been built, and fallows where land...been cultivated, are frequently seen with no living thing near them. This effect is not so visible in larger towns, though the cause is known to operate... | |
 | George Bush - Bible - 1832 - 288 pages
...at Constantinople, " most striking to a traveller passing through Turkey, is its depopulation. Ruins where villages had been built, and fallows where land...been cultivated, are frequently seen with no living thing near them. This effect is not so visible in larger towns, though the cause is known to operate... | |
 | George Bush - Bible - 1842 - 240 pages
...at Constantinople, "most striking to a traveller passing through Turkey, is its depopulation. Ruins where villages had been built, and fallows where land...been cultivated, are frequently seen with no living thing near them. This effect is not so visible in larger towns, though the cause is known to operate... | |
 | George Bush - Bible - 1842 - 240 pages
...at Constantinople, "most striking to a traveller passing through Turkey, is its depopulation. Ruins where villages had been built, and fallows where land...been cultivated, are frequently seen with no living thing near them. This effect is not so visible in larger towns, though the cause is known to operate... | |
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