Brusa

He was a native of Brusa, and amassed a considerable sum of money.

Travels in Arabia 2003

The others had been deported, and Abd el Kader told us a long story of his escape from Brusa, and his journey, with a thousand adventures, across

Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003

BALIKISRI (_Balukiser_), a town of Asia Minor, capital of the Karasi sanjak in the vilayet of Brusa, altitude 575 ft., situated on rising ground above

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various

Brusa is no longer the capital of the Turks; they have left far behind them the town of the green mosques, of the great platanes and tombs of the caliphs, they have crossed the Bosphorus and are established at

A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand

Napoleon eventually allowed him to depart to Brusa, and he finally died at Damascus in 1883, not, however, before he had rendered signal service to his former enemies by protecting the Christians during the massacres of 1860.

The Story of the Barbary Corsairs Stanley Lane-Poole

In the summer of 1845 Mr. Layard, Count Perpontier of the Prussian Embassy, and Mr. Kellogg, quitted Constantinople together, and visited Brusa (where Layard was some time dangerously ill from a _coup de soleil_), Mount Olympus, the country of the Ourouks or Wandering Tartars, the valley of the

The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851 Various

In 1336, Sultan Orkan found leisure from war and conquest to establish, at Brusa, a literary institution, which became so famous for its learning, that Persians and Arabians did not disdain to avail themselves of its instruction.

The Continental Monthly, Vol 3 No 3, March 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

One rediscovers it often, for example in this brief journal entry, written later, near a mosque at Brusa on one May morning: «Ah! begin anew and on again afresh!

Nobel Prize in Literature 1947 - Presentation Speech 1947

The Turk cannot govern Ægypt and Arabia and Curdistan as he governs Thrace; nor has he the same dominion in Crimea and Algiers which he has at Brusa and Smyrna.

V. Interlude: On Jargon 1916

It is a village of 1500 Greek and Turkish inhabitants in the sandjak of Erthogrul and the vilayet of Brusa.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913