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Named by Byron in 1811-07-07 to HeDrury, the last letter before returning to England. A river located in the Epirus region of northwest Greece. Its source is near the village Zotiko, in the southwestern part of the Ioannina regional unit it flows…

Traditionally, the tomb of Achilles, mentioned by Byron in his letter to CaByron 1810-06-28

1811-01-20 Byron to FrHodgson. London Journal 7 March 1814

Byron to John Hanson, September 29th 1809:
(Source: text from B.L.Egerton 2611 ff.149-51; BLJ I 225)
Visited by Byron 1809-11-12. The ancient name of a promontory of western Greece in northwestern
Acarnania, at the mouth of the Sinus Ambracius…

Byron to John Hanson, November 24th 1809:
(Source: text from B.L.Egerton 2611 ff.159-61; BLJ I 233-4)
Visited 1809-11-24 to JoHanson. A mountainous region of Greece on the north coast of the Gulf of Corinth,
forming the eastern part of the…

Byron to Francis Hodgson, August 6th 1809: "Talking of Asia puts me in mind of Africa, which is within five miles of my present residence. I am going over before I go on to Constantinople."
Byron says that he has visited Africa in 1810-07-20 to…

Named by Byron to CaByron 1809-11-12.

"There is a Bill of Miller’s in Albemarle’s which also must be paid immediately, on my arrival; I do not mean to reproach you, but I certainly thought there were funds to answer so small a draft when I left London, however it has remained in his…

Byron to Catherine Gordon Byron, August 11th 1809: "I sent my baggage & part of the servants by sea to Gibraltar, and travelled on horseback from Aldea Gallega (the first stage from Lisbon which is only accessible by water) to Seville (one of the…

Mentioned in 1810-04-17 to CaByron. The site of an ancient Greek city situated on the Aegean Sea near the northern tip of Turkey's western coast, a little south of Tenedos, modern Bozcaada. Wiki