Golden Horn

Golden Horn

The correspondence Byron wrote and some of which he received during the tour.

Named as visited by Byron in 1810-06-28. a major inlet of the Bosphorus, In Istanbul, Turkey. It is a horn-shaped estuary (hence, the name) that joins the Bosphorus at the immediate point where said strait meets the Sea of Marmara, thus forming an isolated peninsula, the tip of which is "Old Istanbul" (ancient Byzantion and Constantinople), and the promontory of Sarayburnu, or Seraglio Point. The Golden Horn geographically separates the historic center of Istanbul from the rest of the city, and forms a natural harbor that has historically sheltered Greek, Roman, Byzantine, Ottoman and other ships for thousands of years. Wiki

Paul M Curtis

Byron, George Gordon, Lord. Byron’s Letters and Journals. Ed. Leslie A. Marchand. 13 vols. London: John Murray 1973–94.

The Byron Online Project: http://byrononlineproject.com/

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Paul M Curtis

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David Radcliffe's "Lord Byron and his Times:"
http://www.lordbyron.org/

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English Romanticism, George Gordon, sixth Baron Byron, 1788-1824, 1809-1811

Golden Horn