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Nouvelles relations du Levant : qui contiennent plusieurs remarques fort curieuses non encore obseruées touchant la religion, les moeurs, & la politique de diuers peuples : auec vn discours sur le commerce des Anglois & des Hollandois
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Year: 1667 Publisher: A Paris Chez Louys Billaine ...

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Balkan ghosts : a journey through history
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ISBN: 0679749810 9780679749813 Year: 1996 Publisher: New York (N.Y.) : Vintage books,


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Balkaniques : Ecrits du voyage
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ISBN: 9782918220848 2918220841 Year: 2019 Publisher: Paris L'herbe qui tremble


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A brief account of some travels in Hungaria, Servia, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Thessaly, Austria, Styria, Carinthia, Carniola, and Friuli : as also some observations on the gold, silver, copper, quick-silver mines, baths, and mineral waters in those parts : with the figures of some habits and remarkable places
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Year: 1673 Publisher: London Printed by T.R. for Benj. Tooke, and are to be sold ...


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Traveler, Scholar, Political Adventurer
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ISBN: 6155225818 9786155225819 9786155225802 615522580X Year: 2022 Publisher: Budapest New York

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The Austro-Hungarian aristocrat of Transylvanian origin, Baron Franz Nopcsa (1877-1933), was one of the most adventuresome travelers and scholars of Southeast Europe in the early decades of the twentieth century. He was also a paleontologist of renown and a noted geologist of the Balkan Peninsula : many of his assumptions have been confirmed by science. The Memoirs of this fascinating figure deal mainly with his travels in the Balkans, and specifically in the remote and wild mountains of northern Albania, in the years from 1903 to 1914. They thus cover the period of Ottoman Rule, the Balkan Wars and the outbreak of the First World War. Nopcsa was a keen adventurer who hiked through regions of northern Albania. With time, he became a leading expert in Albanian studies. He was also deeply involved in the politics of the period. In 1913, Nopcsa even offered himself as a candidate for the vacant Albanian throne. The Introduction also tells of Nopcsa's tragic death: he shot his Albanian secretary and partner before killing himself. The memoirs themselves reveal some references to his homosexuality for those who can read between the lines.


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Гласник Српског географског друштва = Bulletin de la Société serbe de géographie
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ISSN: 03503593 2406078X Year: 1912 Publisher: Beograd: Srpsko geografsko društvo,

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