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THE PASSING OF THE TURKISH EMPIRE IN EUROPE

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Seraglio Point
The entrance to the Golden Horn with foreign warships: a white-paintedDutch man-of-war, the Gelderland; the French cruiser, Léon Gambetta;H.M.S. Weymouth; and an Austrian battleship. In the distance the Towerof Galata.

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THE PASSING
OF THE
TURKISH EMPIRE
IN EUROPE

BY
CAPTAIN B. GRANVILLE BAKER
LATE OF H.M. 21ST HUSSARS AND THE 9TH ROYAL PRUSSIAN HUSSARS
AUTHOR OF “THE WALLS OF CONSTANTINOPLE,” “THE
DANUBE WITH PEN AND PENCIL,” “A WINTER
HOLIDAY IN PORTUGAL,” &c.

WITH 33 ILLUSTRATIONS & A MAP

LONDON
SEELEY, SERVICE & CO. LIMITED
38 Great Russell Street
1913

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