The Ruins, or, Meditation on the Revolutions of Empires
Subtitle: and the Law of Nature
Publisher: Adamant Media Corporation
Published: February 16, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 259
ISBN-13: 9781402178450
Subjects: ruins,Ancient History,revolutions of Empires,law of Nature; History / Ancient / General; History / Ancient / Greece
First sentence: IN the eleventh year of the reign of Abd-ul-Hamid, son of Ahmid, emperor of the Turks; when the Nogais-Tartars were driven from the Crimea, and a Mussulman prince of the blood of Gengis-Kahn became the vassal and guard of a Christian woman and queen, I was travelling in the Ottoman dominions, and through those provinces which were anciently the kingdoms of Egypt and Syria.