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1810-05-03 to HeDrury. The Ambracian Gulf, also known as the Gulf of Arta or the Gulf of Actium, and in some official documents as the Amvrakikos Gulf, is a gulf of the Ionian Sea in northwestern Greece. Wiki

Named as visited by Byron to HeDrury 1810-05-03. The name of the northwestern part of Epirus, the homeland of the Greek tribe of the Chaonians. Its main town was called Phoenice. According to Virgil, Chaon was the eponymous ancestor of the Chaonians.…

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 before Troy in 1810-04-17. An allusion, rather?

Mentioned in 1810-04-17 to CaByron. The site of an ancient Greek city situated on the Aegean Sea near the northern tip of Turkey's western coast, a little south of Tenedos, modern Bozcaada. Wiki

Decscribed in 1810-04-17 to CaByron

See 1810-04-10a. A synecdochic metonym for the central government of the Ottoman Empire. Wiki

In Classical antiquity, a region in the western part of the Balkan Peninsula inhabited by the Illyrians. Wiki. Geo coor for Musala.

Mentioned by Byron in 1808-10-07 and 1810-03-19. Geo coor for Tehran. The Qajar Dynasty from 1785 to 1925. (Wiki)

An ancient Greek city on a site in present-day Turkey and visited by Byron as of 1810-03-19.