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

One of three daughters of Tarsia Macri, Byron's Athens landlady. "Mrs. Tarsia Macri, [was the] widow of a former British Vice-Consul. The youngest, Teresa, then only 12, Byron celebrated in is poem to the 'Maid of Athens'." BLJ I-240n. See as well,…

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…

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

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

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 1809-05-05, as distinct from "Asia"

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A Harrow friend of Byron's. Recorder for the Straits Settlements from 1825 to 1829

Headmaster of Harrow, succeeding Dr Joseph Drury in 1805, and dean of Peterborough. See the portrait of Pomposus in 1807-03-06 and BLJ I-111n. Also mentioned by Byron in 1808-11-27 to FrHodgson