Identifier: storiesofpersons00bene (find matches)
Title: Stories of persons and places in Europe
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Benedict, E. L. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: New York, London, G. Routledge and sons
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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of Augus-tus Csesar. Philippi was twice visited by the apostle Paul, and was the first placein Europe where he preached the gospel. Nothing but ruins are nowfound there, among them the remains of a great amphitheatre and a hugerelic of the temple of Claudius. The Golden Horn.—The most important of the Turkish provinces isancient Thrace, extending from the borders of Macedonia to the Bosphorus.It contains the rich plain of Adrianople, where roses are raised by theacre to be converted into the precious Attar of Eoses, that sells for one Turkey—in Europe. 387 hundred dollars an onnce. But this is not snch an extravagant price, whentt takes four hundred thousand full grown flowers to make an ounce of the Ml Where the Bosphorus begins to cut the eastern extremity °f Thrace,nearX sea of Marmora, is a little inlet jutting out from the strart into thePeninsula, shaped like an oxs horn. Upon this many years ago, a citywas built by Greek colonists from Sparta and Athens, and was called By-
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THE BOSPHORUS. zantium. Having an excellent harbor, and being right on the line of travelfrom Europe to Asia, it grew to be a very flourishing city It became thedepot of the corn trade between the shores of the Euxme (Black) Sea andGreece and Egypt, and was the centre of ^ery extensive fisheries Because of the wealth and prosperity thus flowing into it the little inletupon which the city stood received the name of the Golden HornwMch has clung to it ever since. Upon this « Golden Horn » the ships of 388 Persons and Places in Europe. all nations are riding to-day, loading and unloading their treasures, just asthey have been doing for ages. But nations have come and gone since Ithen. The city has been taken and retaken, and each new master hasgiven it a new name and a new appearance. Philip of Macedon attempted to take the city of Byzantium from theGreeks, but by the help of the Athenians, whom Demosthenes had at laststirred up, it was able to hold out against him. It is said, however

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