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CHALCEDON , more correctly CALCIIEDON (mod. Kadikeui), an See also: ancient maritime See also:town of See also:Bithynia, in See also:Asia See also:Minor, almost directly opposite See also:Byzantium, See also:south of See also:Scutari. It was a Megarian See also:colony founded on a site so obviously inferior to that which was within view on the opposite See also:shore, that it received from the See also:oracle the name of " the See also:City of the See also:Blind." In its See also:early See also:history it shared the fortunes of Byzantium, was taken by the See also:- SATRAP [Pers. Khshatrapavan, i.e." protector (superintendent) of the country (or district)," Heb. sakhshadrapan, Gr. taerpan-ris (insc. of Miletus, Sitzungsber. Berl. Ak. 1900, 112), E% u3pa7eixav (insc. of Mylasa, Dittenberger, Sylloge, 95), ital. p6. rr
satrap Otanes, vacillated See also:long between the Lacedaemonian and the Athenian interests, and was at last bequeathed to the See also:Romans by Attalus III. of See also:Pergamum (133 B.C.). It was partly destroyed by See also:Mithradates, but recovered during the See also:Empire, and in A.D. 451 was the seat of the See also:Fourth See also:General See also:Council. It See also:fell under the repeated attacks of the See also:barbarian hordes who crossed over after having ravaged Byzantium, and furnished an encampment to the Persians under See also:Chosroes, c. 616-626. The See also:Turks used it as a See also:quarry for See also:building materials for See also:Constantinople. The site is now occupied by the See also:village of Kadikeui (" Village of the See also:Judge "), which forms the tenth " cercle " of the See also:municipality of Constantinople. Pop. about 33,000, of whom 8000 are Moslems. There is a large See also:British colony with a See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church, and ' also See also:Greek and Armenian churches and See also:schools, and a training See also:college for See also:Roman See also:Catholic Armenians. To the S. are the ruins of Panteichion (mod. Pendik), where See also: Belisarius is said to have lived in retirement.
See J. von See also:Hammer, Constantinopolis (Pesth, 1822) ; See also:- MURRAY
- MURRAY (or MORAY), EARLS OF
- MURRAY (or MORAY), JAMES STUART, EARL OF (c. 1531-1570)
- MURRAY (or MORAY), SIR ROBERT (c. 1600-1673)
- MURRAY, ALEXANDER STUART (1841-1904)
- MURRAY, DAVID (1849– )
- MURRAY, EUSTACE CLARE GRENVILLE (1824–1881)
- MURRAY, JAMES (c. 1719-1794)
- MURRAY, JOHN
- MURRAY, JOHN (1778–1820)
- MURRAY, LINDLEY (1745–1826)
- MURRAY, LORD GEORGE (1694–1760)
- MURRAY, SIR JAMES AUGUSTUS HENRY (1837– )
- MURRAY, SIR JOHN (1841– )
Murray's Handbook for Constantinople (See also:London, 1900).
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