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
STOCKERAN, a town in _Austria_, 131.
STOLNICHO, a Valachian word, signifying a _steward_, 78.
STRADA _Jacobus_, his manuscript of antient medals in the Imperial
library at _Vienna_, 120.
STROMBOLI, a burning island near _Sicily_, an account of it, 173.
STRYCHIVS, a learned professor at Hall, 145.
SUSEGIERLICK, a village on the river _Aesépus_ in _Mysia Minor_.
The word signifies the _Water ox_, or _Buffalo town_, 52, 58.
SUTTON _Sir Robert_, ambassador to the _Porte_, his manner of audience
of the _grand vizír_, and _grand signior_, 65, 66.
His present to the _grand signior_, 68.
SYLVA HERCYNIA, now called _Behemerwaldt_ in _Bohemia_, 132.
SYMPLEGADES, islands near the entrance of the Thracian _Bosphorus_, 42.
A pillar on one of them falsely called _Pompey’s column_, _ib._
An inscription on the basis of it, _ib._
SZEKELI, a people of _Transylvania_, 99, 104.
Their religion, 101.
SZEKHELYHID, a town in _Hungary_, 105.
T.
TAIN, a Valachian word for an allowance, 77.
TARTALECUI, a village in _Lydia_ between _Magnesia_ and _Thyatira_,
signifying the _board village_, from the trees, which are there
sawed into boards, 56.
TARTALEE, a hill not far from _Smyrna_, 2.
TARTAR HAN, his letter to the Emperor, 120.
TARZA, antiently _Tarsius_, a river running thro the plains of _Zelia_,
in _Mysia Minor_, described, 58, 59.
TEFTERDAR, or DEFTERDAR, from the Greek διφθέρα, the _skin_ or _vellum_
on which they write, 66.
This officer has the whole management of the external revenue among
the Turks. _Cantem._ p. 146.
TEKELY _Count_, defeated general _Heusler_, 87,
but was slain in that defeat, 89.
TEMNVS, a mountain in _Aeolia_ described, 52, 57.
TENEDOS, an island, with a town of that name in the _Aegean_ sea,
opposite to _Mysia_, 33.
TERGOVIST, a city in _Valachia_, and a convent near it described, 83.
TESKERGÉE BASHA, secretary to the _Grand Signior_, 67.
TEYA, a river in _Austria_, 131.
THEOCRITVS, a manuscript of him in the senators library at _Leipsick_,
144.
THERDA, a town in _Transylvania_, remarkable for its salt pits, 96.
An inscription there, _ib._
THESAVRVS LINGVAE LATINAE of R. _Stephanus_, with ms. notes of his own
writing, in the possession of Mr. _le Clerc_, 167.
THOMASIVS, a professor in the university of _Hall_, 145.
THRACE, its shore described, 38, 41.
THRACIAN _Bosphorus_ described, 41, 42.
THREE SHERIFFS, a _mosque_ at _Adrianople_ so called, 63, 64.
These _sheriffs_ are galleries, from whence the _ezan_, or _sacred
hymn_, is sung; and are so called from the word _sheriff_, which
signifies _holy_. _Cantem._, p. 215, 216.
ΘΥΣΙΑΣΤΗΡΙΟΝ, the _altar_ of a Greek church, 81.
THYATIRA, a city of _Lydia_ described, 53.
Greek inscriptions there, _ib._
TIBISCVS, a river in _Hungary_, 107.
TIVAN, a Turkish word for a _ceiling_, 7.
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