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
SERAGLIO, a Turkish palace, an old one of the _Grand Signior_ at
_Magnesia_, 7.
That at _Constantinople_ described, 45.
And at _Adrianople_, 63, 66, 67.
SESTOS, see RUMELI HISAR.
SEVEN TOWERS, a castle at _Constantinople_, 38.
Described, 48.
SHARKAN, a town in _Transylvania_, described, 88.
SHARSHEES, porticos at _Adrianople_ for the reception of particular
trades, 65.
SHEEP of _Hungary_, their horns long, straight, and twisted; and their
wool exceeding course, 107.
SHEPHERD SCYTHIANS, see TURCMEN.
SHERIFF, see THREE SHERIFFS.
SHERRADIN _Count_, his dexterity in shooting, 125.
SICAMBRIA, see BUDA.
SIGEVM, a promontory near _Troy_, 34.
SIGRIVM, see SIGURI.
SIGURI, a cape in the island _Lesbos_, 33.
SILK, see PRUSIA.
SIMOW, see AESEPVS.
SINAN _pashá_, his sepulcher at _Gallipoli_, 61.
SINVS CIANVS, 49.
SINVS MELAS, see CARDIA.
SIPYLVS, a mountain near _Magnesia_, 5.
Described, 12.
SLONEY, a town in _Bohemia_, 138.
SOLACKS, the _Grand Signior’s_ body guard, 69.
SOLOMON’S _temple_, see HAMBURG.
SOLYMAN EFFENDI, his account of Roman arms reserved in _Magnesia_
castle, 9.
His civility to the travelers, 10.
SOLYMAN _Sultan_, his _mosque_ at _Constantinople_, called the
_Solymanjá_, described, 40.
SOLYMANJÁ, see SOLYMAN _Sultan_.
SOMLYO, formerly a seat of the kings of _Hungary_, 98.
SOPHA, a Turkish room, having the floor covered with a carpet, and a
mattress on both sides, and at the upper end, about a yard broad
and a foot high, over which cloth is laid, or other rich stuff,
and cusheons next the wall to lean upon, 3, 39.
SOPHIA, princess dowager of _Hanover_, 150.
Her character, 151.
SOPHIA _Saint_, her church at _Constantinople_, now turned into a
Turkish _mosque_, described, 47.
SORNDORF, a village in _Lunenburg_, 152.
SORRICUI, a village on the river _Bocléw_ in _Mysia Minor_, 59.
SOTALEA, antiently _Cuma_, a bay in _Aetolia_, 32.
STAGNVM PEGASEVM communicates with the river _Cayster_, 21.
STAMBOL, or ISTAMBAL, the Turkish name for _Constantinople_, 47.
STANIZLO _Stephanus_, professor of philosophy at _Clausenburg_ in
_Transylvania_, 97.
STAON, a Bulgarian Christian, aged 120 years, who had three times
changed his teeth, 73.
STATUES, one of our _Savior_ in the cloister of the Premonstratensians
at _Prague_, affirmed to have sweated blood, 136.
A brass one of an old German idol described, 143.
One of Neptune at _Messina_ described, 174.
Another of our _Savior_ and the _Virgin_, believed to have been taken
from the life, _ib._
STEKEN, a village in _Bohemia_, 132.
STEPHEN _Saint_, his church at _Vienna_ described, 116.
A stone preferred there, as one of those, with which he was martyred,
117.
STERNFORT, a small castle near _Hamburg_, 153.
STIFER ALLAH, in the Turkish language, _God forbid_, 60.
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