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
MENCHENIVS _Dr. Otto_, professor of moral philosophy at _Leipsick_,
and editor of the _Acta Eruditorum_, 142.
MENCHENIVS _Junior_, doctor of law at _Leipsick_, 143.
MENOLOGION, a Greek manuscript in the possession of Dr. _Goëtze_ at
_Leipsick_, 143.
MEPOMIENVS, or NEPOMENENVS _Sanctus Joannes_, a new saint at
_Vienna_, 117.
A brazen statue and inscription erected there to his memory, 137.
MERCY, a convent at _Cadiz_, founded for the redemption of Christian
slaves, 171.
ΜΕΣΟΓΕΙΟΤΗΣ, or _Midland hills_, in the _Caystrian_ plain, 19.
MESSINA, a city on the coast of _Sicily_, described, 173.
The cathedral, monasteries, _etc._, 174, 175, 176.
_Ceres_ and _Proserpina_ antiently worshiped there, 176.
METROPOLIS, an antient city of _Lydia_, whose ruins are described, 30.
MEULEVI, an order of Turkish monks, whose ceremonies are described,
49, 70.
MEYER _Dr._, a turbulent divine of _Hamburg_, 155.
MICHAEL _Saint_, his church at _Vienna_, 117.
A remarkable picture of him at _Cadiz_, 171.
MIHALICK, a town in _Mysia Minor_, where the river _Aesépus_ discharges
itself into the sea, 58.
MIKES, _Count Michael_, received L. Paget on the borders of
_Transylvania_, 86.
MILE _Hungarian_, equal to six _Italian_, 87.
MILO, antiently _Melos_, one of the _Cyclades_, with a city of the same
name, described, 176.
The birth place of _Socrates_ and _Aristophanes_, _ib._
Hot baths there, 177.
MINAREE, a steeple, or _tower_, joining to a Turkish _mosque_, from
which the _muezin_, or _chanter_, calls the people to prayers, 7.
MINDERA, a Turkish _mattress_, filled with cotton or wool, 67.
MINISTERS of the _diván_, their habit, 68.
MINYAS, a village and castle so called in _Mysia Minor_, 58.
MISSELTOE, its manner of growing about _Thyatira_, 56.
MISTEN, a town in _Upper Saxony_, 140.
MITYLENE or _Lesbos_, an island in the _Aegean_ sea, 32, 33.
MOESIA INFERIOR, see BULGARIA.
MOLANVS, see GERHARDVS _Abbot_.
MOLDAVIA, by submitting to the Turks was taxed lower than the
neighbouring countries, 85.
MONETA BRACTEATA, lately found in _Saxony_, described, 143.
MONNIKEDAM, a town in _North Holland_, 168.
MONTAGNIA, a Turkish town in _Bithynia_, which seems to be the _Apaméa_
of the antients, 50.
MONTE ARGENTATO, see BATKAN.
MORAT I. Emperor of the Turks, converted a Christian church at
_Adrianople_ into a mosque, now called _Eskijamí_, or the _Old
mosque_, which yet retains the antient form, 64.
MORAT _Sultan_, his strength and activity, 46.
MORAVIA, now called _Makren_, 131.
Antiently the seat of the _Marcomanni_ and _Quadi_, 123.
The country fertile, but the people slaves, _ib._
Speak the _Behemish_ language, _ib._
MORAWA, antiently the _Marus_, a river in _Austria_, 131.
Called _Mark_ by the _Germans_, 133.
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