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Named but not visited by Byron in 1809-09-29. Visited 1810-03-19

A classical Greek Athenian philosopher

"[Cintra] unites in itself all the wildness of the Western Highlands with the verdure of the South of France."

Location of Burgage Manor where Byron visited

The second country visited during the Mediterranedan Tour. "Byron and Hobhouse travelled across Spain in the summer of 1809. ... The version of this journey in CHP I is concerned with
the effects of the Napoleonic annexation of Spain in 1808 ...."…

"Galt also writes something not very intelligible about a “Spartan state paper” which by his account is anything but Laconic, now the said Sparta having some years ceased to be a state, what the devil does he mean by a paper?" 1810-10-04 to Hobhouse

Byron's servant who accompanied Byron upon his return to England

1810-06-28 Byron makes light of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's praise of St Paul's over St Sophia's.

Istanbul, rather than Constantinople, which Byron calls "Stamboul" in 1810-05-05. Deathplace of Claude Alexandre de Bonneval

Byron to Catherine Gordon Byron, August 11th 1809: "... I am to have the house for a few days of one of their great men, which was intended for Lady W[estmoreland], whose health will not permit her to cross the Straits. –"