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... gate now called Silivri Kapısı is the one by which the Greeks entered when they retook the city from the Latins . Just outside this gate , standing in a grove of trees , is the Holy Well of Balukli . I was sorry not to visit , for it is ...
... gate now called Silivri Kapısı is the one by which the Greeks entered when they retook the city from the Latins . Just outside this gate , standing in a grove of trees , is the Holy Well of Balukli . I was sorry not to visit , for it is ...
Page 189
... gate , the length of which was twelve cubits and its breath eight cubits . He fixed the gate and the bolts , and he placed nails of iron and beat them down one by the other , so that if the Huns came and dug out the rock which was under ...
... gate , the length of which was twelve cubits and its breath eight cubits . He fixed the gate and the bolts , and he placed nails of iron and beat them down one by the other , so that if the Huns came and dug out the rock which was under ...
Page 190
... gate was hung and stood . E. A. W. Budge , The History of Alexander the Great ( Cambridge , 1889 ) This ' gate ' is beyond Turkey , and runs from the Castle of Derbend across the Caucasus to the Caspian Sea , in which region it is known ...
... gate was hung and stood . E. A. W. Budge , The History of Alexander the Great ( Cambridge , 1889 ) This ' gate ' is beyond Turkey , and runs from the Castle of Derbend across the Caucasus to the Caspian Sea , in which region it is known ...
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