Geography -- Dictionaries
_Africa._ Continent, connected with Asia by a small strip of land (cut by Suez Canal) and separated from Europe by the Mediterranean Sea. Northern Africa was known to the ancients, but Europeans have only lately learned to know the southern part and the interior well. Most of...
_Africa._ Continent, connected with Asia by a small strip of land (cut by Suez Canal) and separated from Europe by the Mediterranean Sea. Northern Africa was known to the ancien...
2. Part 2_Damascus._ One of the oldest cities of the world. Has been under Syrian, Assyrian, Babylonian, Persian, Greek, Roman, Turkish rule. This pleasant and commercially important Syr...
3. Part 3_Naples._ Italian: Napoli. Former kingdom of Italy, one of the Two Sicilies. Province of Italy and its capital, the largest city of Italy, the Neapolis of the ancients. Long a G...
4. Part 4_Trebizond_ or _Tarobosan_. Ancient: Trapezus. Province of Turkey and its capital, port on the Black Sea. Has belonged to several different empires. There was, during the middle...