Travels in Turkey and back to EnglandChishull, Edmund
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Travels in Turkey and back to England
Chishull, Edmund
Turkey -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800
HU, HU, that is, _he be_, or _he who is_; with the Turks meaning _God_,
71.
See _D’Herbelot_, and _Wilson’s Seraglio_, p. 764, 786.
HUMUMLEE, a village in _Mysia Minor_ near the lake _Minyás_, 59.
HUNGARI, a people of _Transylvania_, 99.
Their government, 100.
Religion, 101.
Customs, 104.
HUNGARS, a gold coin in Turkey, worth about ten shillings sterling, 39.
HUNGARY, divided from _Transylvania_ near the village _Zilak_, 98.
Its soil rich and abounding with lakes, 111.
Divided from _Austria_ by the river _Leyta_, 114.
HUNGRISCH ALTENBURG, a town in _Hungary_, situated on the river _Leyta_,
114.
HVNNI, a colony of _Scythians_, now settled in _Transylvania_, 99, 100.
HYAENA, one at _Neugebac_ in _Austria_ described, 118.
HYLLVS, a river near _Thyatira_, 52.
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JACACUI, a village near _Smyrna_, 2.
JALOMITZA, a river in _Valachia_, 83.
JANIKAW, a town in _Bohemia_, memorable for the battle in 1645 between
the Swedes and Imperialists, 133.
JANISARIES, a body of the Turkish infantry. The word signifies _new
soldiers_, as they were the last order introduced. They make the
_Grand Signior’s_ foot guard, and the _spaheés_ the horse, 2.
The manner of their dismission from duty, 68.
ICHOGLANS, youth born of Christian parents, and educated by the Turks
in the _seraglio_ for public offices of the state, 46.
IDA, now _Cordág_, a mountain near _Troy_, 33, 58, 59, 60.
JENICUI, a town in _Thrace_, 73.
JERDACK, a village in _Mysia Minor_ near _Lampsacus_, 60.
Two inscriptions there, _ib._
JESUITS, their convents at _Vienna_, 117.
And colleges at _Prague_, 135.
Where they have the direction of the university and public schools,
137.
Pictures in St. _Nicholas’s_ college at _Messina_ in honour of those
five, who were executed in _England_ for the popish plot, 174.
JEWS at _Pernitz_, their mark of distinction, 132.
and at _Prague_, 137.
IGLAW, a city in _Moravia_, 132.
Houses there with false fronts, _ib._
IGLAW, a river in _Moravia_, 132.
IGMAND, a town in _Hungary_, 112.
IIRID, a Turkish _javelin_. The modern Greeks write it τζιρήδ. 46.
ILFOF, a small river in _Valachia_, 82.
ILIVM, see TROY.
IMAGES, see STATUES.
IMAM, a Turkish priest, who daily says public prayers. From the Greek
word ἐφημέριος, by the modern Greeks corrupted into ἡμάμ, 60.
IMBROS, an island in the _Aegean_ sea, near the _Chersonésos_, 33.
INN, see ARNSWOLDT.
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