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See also:SCUTARI (See also:Turkish, Uskudar, anc. Chrysopolis) , a See also:town of See also:Turkey in See also:Asia, on the E. See also:shore of the See also:Bosporus, opposite See also:Con-stantinople of which it forms the 9th Cercle Municipale. Its painted wooden houses and See also:- WHITE
- WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
- WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
- WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
- WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
- WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
- WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
- WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
- WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
- WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
- WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
- WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
- WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)
white minarets piled upon the slopes of the shore and backed by the cypresses of the See also:great See also:cemetery farther inland See also:present a very picturesque See also:appearance from the See also:sea. The town contains eight mosques, one of them, the Valideh Jami, built in 1547, of considerable beauty. Other remarkable buildings are the vast See also:barracks of See also:Selim III. and a See also:hospital used during the See also:Crimean See also:War (see See also:NIGHTINGALE, See also:FLORENCE). The See also:chief See also:industry of Scutari is the manufacture of See also:silk, See also:muslin and See also:cotton stuffs. The See also:population is estimated at 105,500, of which two-thirds are See also:Mahommedan. The most striking feature of Scutari is its immense cemetery, the largest and most beautiful of all the cemeteries in and around See also:Constantinople; it extends over more than 3 M. of undulating See also:plain behind the town. Between Scutari and Haidar See also:Pasha the See also:English See also:army See also:lay en-camped during the Crimean War, and in a cemetery on the Bosporus are buried the S000 English who died in hospital. At Haidar Pasha is the See also:terminus of the See also:Angora, See also:Konia and See also:Smyrna See also:railways. Chrysopolis (" See also:Golden See also:City "), the See also:ancient name of Scutari, most probably has reference to the fact that there the See also:Persian See also:tribute was collected, as at a later date the ,.thenians levied there a tenth on the See also:ships passing from the Euxine. Scutari was formerly the See also:post station for See also:Asiatic couriers (Uskudar= See also:courier), as also down to the introduction of See also:steam the terminus of the See also:caravan routes from See also:Syria and Asia.
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