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26, Bernard Randolph, The Present State of the Morea, Called Anciently Peloponnesus: Together with a Description of the City of Athens (London, 1689).
The Peloponnese (formerly known as the Morea) is a large peninsular landmass to the west of Athens in Greece. This description of the politics and history of the region was written by an English merchant named Bernard Randolph, who lived in Greece for much of the 1670s.
This book was of great contemporary interest because of the ongoing efforts of the Holy Roman Empire to push the Turks back to the Black Sea, as well as the war which broke out in 1684 between the Venetians and the Turks in the eastern Mediterranean. The Venetians drove the Turks out of the Peloponnese by 1687, and captured the city of Athens.
This book was donated by Robert Travers in September 1858 to replace one noted as missing in 1767.
Citation:
26, Bernard Randolph, The Present State of the Morea, Called Anciently Peloponnesus: Together with a Description of the City of Athens (London, 1689).,
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