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Byron to Catherine Gordon Byron, November 12th 1809:
(Source: text from Morgan Library, photocopy from microfilm; LJ I 246-57; QI 58-63; BLJ I 226-31)
Aetolia-Acarnania, Greece. Named and visited by Byron 1809-11-13 See 1809-11-12.

1809-07-16 to FrHodgson: "To-morrow we start to ride post near 400 miles as far as Gibraltar, where we embark for Melita and Byzantium. A letter to Malta will find me, or to be forwarded, if I am absent."

Named by Byron as visited 1810-07-29. It lies in the northern section of the Isthmus of Corinth opposite the island of Salamis, which belonged to Megara in archaic times, before being taken by Athens. Wiki

Byron to Catherine Gordon Byron, September 15th 1809:
(Source: text from Morgan Library, photocopy from microfilm; LJ I 243-6; QI 56-7; BLJ I 223-4)
Mentioned by Byron to CaByron in 1809-09-15 in the context Constance Spencer Smith. "The Marquis de…

Mentioned obliquely by Byron in 1811-01-10. In BLJ II-32n Marchand describes Marmarotouri as Byron's Romaic master. He was also a leader among the Grek patriots.

Byron to Catherine Gordon Byron, November 12th 1809:
(Source: text from Morgan Library, photocopy from microfilm; LJ I 246-57; QI 58-63; BLJ I 226-31);
Roman politician and general

Mariana, the eldest of the Macri sisters. BLJ II-13n

Byron to Catherine Gordon Byron, September 15th 1809:
(Source: text from Morgan Library, photocopy from microfilm; LJ I 243-6; QI 56-7; BLJ I 223-4)

see 1810-10 MaPigot to CaByron; Byron to MaPigot 1811-10-28. Elizabeth's mother.

Visited as of 1810-05-03. A town in Greece, the site of the battle of Marathon in 490 BC, in which the heavily outnumbered Athenian army defeated the Persians. The
tumulus or burial mound, also called the "Soros," for the 192 Athenian dead that…