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
MUEZIN, or _chanter_, who calls the Turks to their prayers, 47.
MOSQUES, buildings for the publick worship of the Turks, in the form
of our churches, 7.
See Dr. _Shaw’s Travels_, p. 283.
MUFTI, the primate, or chief ecclesiastic, and of greatest authority
among the Turks; whom they are bound to consult in all causes of
importance, whether ecclesiastical, civil, or military, 69.
MUGEVEZEE, a sort of _turbant_ worn by the officers of the _diván_, 68.
MULDAW, a river, which runs thro _Prague_, 134.
MULVETELEE, a river near the village _Minyás_ in _Mysia Minor_, 58.
MUM, see BRUNSWICK.
MUSCONISIA isles, situated between the continent of _Aeolia_ and the
island of _Mitylene_, 33.
MUYDEN, a town in _Holland_, 169.
N.
NAERDEN, a town in _Holland_, 169.
NAKEIB _effendi_, the chief of the _sheriffs_ or descendants of
Mahoment, 70.
_Sheriff_ in _Cantemir_, p. 216, signifies _an holy person_.
NAMAZ, the common and daily _prayers_, which the Turks are injoined to
repeat five times in twenty four hours, 47.
ΝΑΟΣ, the _body_ of a Greek church, 81.
ΝΑΡΘΗΞ, the _porch_ of a Greek church, 81.
NATOLIA, or ANATOLIA, antiently _Asia minor_, 34, 35.
NEMETHI _M. B._ professor of philosophy at _Clausenburg_, 97.
NEIMETHI _Sam._ professor of divinity at _Clausenburg_, 97.
NEPOMENENVS, see MEPOMIENVS.
NEPTUNE, see STATUES.
NESSELIVS, keeper of the Imperial library at _Vienna_, turned Papist in
order to qualify himself for that imployment, 121.
NESTORIVS, the place where his heresy was condemned, 25.
NEUFVILLE _Mr._ his character, and curiosities, 164.
NEUGEBAC, an imperial palace near _Vienna_, 118.
NICHOLAS _Saint_, his church at _Leipsick_ described, 141.
And college at _Messina_, 174.
NIPHTI, or NYMPHE, a river near _Magnesia_, some account of it, 12.
NISHANGEE BASHA, an officer, who sets the Grand Signior’s _tura_, or
_name_, to all orders sent from the _Porte_, 66.
See _Wilson’s Seraglio_, p. 610.
NOMADES SCYTHAE, see TURCMEN.
NORBERT _Saint_, patron of _Bohemia_, 134.
His tomb in the church of the Premonstratensians at _Prague_, 136.
NORLICUI, a village near _Smyrna_, signifying the _pomegranate village_,
2.
The word _gui_, is a dissyllable, and denotes a village. Leunclav.
_Hist. Turc._ p. 406.
NORTHERN, a town of the _United Provinces_, at the confines of
_Westphalia_ and _Overissel_, 161.
NYMPHE, a plain near _Smyrna_, 3.
O.
OCKER, a river in _Lower Saxony_, 147.
OESCVS TRIBALLORVM, see ESKI STAMBOL.
OETINGH _Count_, a christian church built at _Challikcavák_ in _Thrace_
by his interest, 74.
OFFENSEY, a village in _Lower Saxony_, 159.
OKE, a Turkish weight of about two pounds three quarters _avoir de
pois_, 6.
See _Rycaut_, V. iii. p. 12.
OLEARIUS _Mr. junior_, professor of humanity at _Leipsick_, 143.
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