Contantinople, the capital, has a population (probably) of a million and a quarter of in-habitants, or about that of Philadelphia. Among the other important towns in European Turkey are Saloniki, an important shipping centre, with 105,000 inhabitants; Adrianople, which has had a large domestic traffic since the completion of the railway to Northern Europe.

IT is important for purposes of reference, if not directly interesting, to relate so much of Ottoman history as may be necessary for the ...

In this second illustrated and including "added map" book (Volume-II)

contains belove ancient cities;

I. MESSENE

II. MYCENÆ

III. MILETUS

IV. NAUPLIA

V. NEMEA

VI. NINEVEH

VII. NUMANTIA

VIII. OLYMPIA

IX. PUTEOLI

X. PALMYRA (TADMOR)

XI. PATRÆ

XII. PELLA

XIII. PERGAMUS

XIV. PERSEPOLIS

XV. PETRA (WADY MOUSA)

XVI. PHIGALIA

XVII. PLATÆA

XVIII. PÆSTUM

XIX. POMPEII

XX. RAMA

XXI. ROME

XXII. SAGUNTUM

XXIII. SAIS

XXIV. SAMARIA

XXV. SAPPHURA

XXVI. SARDIS

XXVII. SELEUCIA

XXVIII. SELINUS, OR SELINUNTUM

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