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  • As the troops passed the Konak, the building in the background with a cupola, they sang the Austrian national anthem.

    The Illustrated War News, Number 21, Dec. 30, 1914 Various

  • Dec. 13 -- Anti-war demonstration by women in Konak and Erzerum; foreigners held in Beirut; no letters under seal can be dispatched; position of Christians in Armenia is dangerous; mutiny among soldiers in barracks and among naval crews; conspiracy against Field Marshal von der

    The New York Times Current History: the European War, February, 1915 Various

  • Castelli, Konak, &c. Along the inner side of the eastern recess, and across its extremity, is a line of galley-houses, -- the penitential offering, it is said, of a patrician exiled here, to purchase his repatriation.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867 Various

  • Konak was a more just one, and that inside its card-board classicalism could be found the slightest approach to American hospitality.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867 Various

  • As I was the first traveller that had come to Djakova with Government permission for a long while, I decided to report myself and Marko, in person, at the Konak at once.

    High Albania Mary Edith 1909

  • The small Catholic population keeps mainly to its own quarters, and my wish to go through the town to the Konak caused much nervousness.

    High Albania Mary Edith 1909

  • The Konak, a ramshackle, wood and mud building, stood in a big yard, through one of the walls of which an extra gateway had been made by simply smashing a hole.

    High Albania Mary Edith 1909

  • A Catholic consented to guide Marko and me to the Konak, but he put on a loaded revolver before he ventured out.

    High Albania Mary Edith 1909

  • Meanwhile the Turkish authorities could not decide what to do about me and called me to the Konak about my passport.

    Twenty Years Of Balkan Tangle 1903

  • I have often wondered how many of those suspicious and swaggering officers were among those who next year flung the yet palpitating bodies of Alexander and Draga from the Konak windows while the

    Twenty Years Of Balkan Tangle 1903

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