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1807-04-16. 1810-01-10 Byron to Hobhouse

Byron to Francis Hodgson, August 6th 1809: "My next epistle shall be from Mount Caucasus or Mount Sion."
See as well: London Journal Monday, Dec 6, 1813. A region at the border of Europe and Asia, situated between the Black
and the Caspian Seas.…

Named as visited in 1810-05-03. A mountain in northwestern Turkey, some 20 miles southeast of the ruins of Troy, along the north coast of the Gulf of Edremit. The name Mount Ida is the ancient one. It is between Balıkesir Province and Çanakkale…

Byron to Francis Hodgson, August 6th 1809: "My next epistle shall be from Mount Caucasus or Mount Sion."
Mentioned by Byron in 1811-02-01.

Byron to FrHodgson 1809-08-06. Mentioned by Byron in 1811-02-01

First named as visited 1810-05-03. See Childe Harold, II, 55. A large mountain in southern Albania. Its highest peak, called Çuka e Partizanit, reaches a height of 2,416 m (7,927 ft). It is located east of the towns of Berat and Poliçan and the river…

Mentioned by Byron in 1811-01-20 to FrHodgson. ... the ancient Greek name for a steep hill (86 metres (282 ft) high) in
Piraeus, Greece, known today as Kastella (Καστέλλα). This is a fashionable neighborhood in central Piraeus. Wiki

Location of JoGalt's house. 1810-10-04

Named as visited by Byron to JoHobhouse 1810-09-25. A seaport town in the Peloponnese in Greece that has expanded up the hillsides near the north end of the Argolic Gulf. During the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern period, under Venetian domination,…

Newstead Abbey, Nottinghamshire -- Byron's ancestral home