The Siege of Vienna: The Last Great Trial Between Cross and Crescent by John Stoye

Author:John Stoye
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Military History, Non fiction
ISBN: 9781453218129
Publisher: Pegasus Books LLC
Published: 2011-04-03T22:00:00+00:00

I. The Ottoman Frontier: above, Esztergom; below Neuhäusel

Edward Browne, the English traveller who made these pen-and-ink sketches in 1669, wrote a few years later of the frontier between Christendom and Islam in Hungary:

A man seems to take leave of our world when he hath passed a day’s journey from Rab (Györ) or Comorra (Komárom): and, before he comes to Buda seems to enter upon a new stage of the world, quite different from that of western countries: for he then bids adieu to hair on the head, bands, cuffs, hats, gloves, beds, beer: and enters upon habits, manners and a course of life which, with no great variety but under some conformity extend unto China and the utmost parts of Asia

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