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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…

Named by Byron to FrHodgson 1809-05-05, as distinct from "Asia"

Byron to FrHodgson 1810-05-05. Located in the Yedikule neighbourhood of Fatih, Istanbul, Turkey. It was built in 1458
by adding three new towers to a section of the Walls of Constantinople which included the Golden Gate. Wiki

Named by Byron to FrHodgson 1810-05-05. I presume he means Topkapi Palace for which the coordinates are given.

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

Named as visited by Byron in 1810-05-05. An ancient region of central coastal Anatolia in present-day Turkey, the region nearest İzmir, which was historically Smyrna. It consisted of the northernmost territories of the Ionian League of Greek…

London address of George Sanders, celebrated "limner," as Byron puts it i 1810-05-24 to his mother.

Named and visited in 1810-06-17. Also referred to sometimes as the Istanbul Strait, is a strait that forms part of the boundary between Europe and Asia. The Bosphorus, the Sea of Marmara, and the Dardanelles strait to the southwest together form the…

used as metaphor for Byron's emotions in 1814-05-31 to ThMoore. Named as visited 1810-06-17.

Named as visited 1810-06-17. See CHP IV 176 line 157