A HANDBOOK FOR TRAVELLERS IN GREECE

ISBN: 9780282583293 Géneros: WT Sinópsis: Excerpt from A Handbook for Travellers in Greece Describing the Ionian Islands Continental Greece Athens and the Peloponnesus the Islands of the Aegean Sea Albania Thessaly and MacedoniaA few explanatory words may be added with reference to the form in which Greek names will appear in the following pages A work containing quotations from many writers all of whom may not have adhered to an uniform method of orthography must present some anomalies For the most part the usually received Latin form of Greek words has been made use of but this rule has in some instances been departed from when by rendering the Greek K by the same letter in English instead of by C it has been possible to retain the exact Hellenic spelling and thereby to facilitate the pronunciation of names of localities in GreeceAbout the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books Find more at wwwforgottenbookscomThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work Forgotten Books uses stateoftheart technology to digitally reconstruct the work preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy In rare cases an imperfection in the original such as a blemish or missing page may be replicated in our edition We do however repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works