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The Bey of Corinth apologizes to Byron for the poor reception Byron received in Corinth during the Bey's absence.

Named as visited by Byron to Hobhouse 1810-07-29 (Daskalio)

Byron to Catherine Gordon Byron, August 11th 1809: "... but I dined yesterday at Algesiras with Lady Westmoreland where I met General Castanos the celebrated Spanish leader in the late & present war, today I dine with him, he has offered me letters…

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,…

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)
Named as visited by Byron to CaByron in 1809-11-12. The principal settlement in the eponymous…

Named and visited by Byron in 1810-08-23 where an Engishman Watson is buried. The Temple of Hephaestus, also known as the Hephaisteion or earlier as the Theseion, is a well-preserved Greek temple; it remains standing largely as built. It is a Doric…

1811-01-20 Byron to FrHodgson

"...and I goes into society (with my pocket-pistols), and I swims in the Tagus all across at once, and I rides on an ass or a mule, and swears Portuguese, and have got a diarrhoea and bites from the musquitoes." Byron to Hodgson 1809-07-16
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"My firman for Syria & Ægypt being arrived I am off in Spring for Mount Sion, Damascus, Tyre & Sidon, Cairo & Thebes. –"
1811-02-01 to Hobhouse

Visited as of 1810-05-03. A promontory located 69 kilometres (43 mi) SSE of Athens, at the southernmost tip of the Attica peninsula in Greece. Wiki