Word: turkish
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...this time Athens was a town of some 10,000 inhabitants consisting principally of Turks, Greeks and Albanians. The city was poor and squalid, with narrow lanes, and no taverns for the accommodation of travelers. The houses were mean yet they contained many historic remains. The Acropolis was a Turkish fortress and closed to the Greeks; here lived the Turkish soldiery which garrisoned the city...
...breaking up of the schools of philosophy in Athens (529 A. D.); 7, from the breaking up of the schools to the coming of the Franks after the Latin Crusade (1205 A. D.), 8. The Frankish period to the coming of the Turks (1456 A. D.); 9, the Turkish period to the proclamation of the present kingdom of Greece...
...destroyed the Acropolis and it has never been entirely rebuilt. The Byzantine emperors, during the sixth period. carried off many of the works of art to Constantinople. In 1456 the Turks took Athens and built mosques upon the Acropolis, but recent explorers have destroyed these Turkish shrines and have restored the ruins to their early state...
...House in Boston was formally opened on the evening of Dec. 29th. The building which cost $300,000 is fitted up in the most elaborate style. In the basement are placed the bath rooms and the swimming tank, which are all that could be desired. For the purpose of Turkish baths there are five rooms finely decorated and furnished. The swimming tank is 41 feet long by 30 feet wide, and is kept constantly filled to a height of seven feet, with pure water. On the ground floor of the building are situated the offices, etc. The first floor contains...
...Ayer's Almanac for 1889. Besides the various editions in English adapted to North and South America, it contains editions in French, Spanish, German, Portuguese, Swedish, Norwegian-Danish, Dutch, Bohemian, and Welsh; also specimen pages of the pamphlets issued by the firm in eleven other languages, including Italian, Finnish, Turkish, Armenian, Bulgarian, Polish, Hawaiian, Gujarati (India), Burmese, and Chinese...