Lexicographical Neighbors of Capitan
Literary usage of Capitan
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of Greece: From Its Conquest by the Romans to the Present Time, B by George Finlay (1877)
"... office of capitan-pasha. His administration restored order and reestablished
justice in such a degree, that most of the fugitives returned from Roumelia ..."
2. History of Europe, from the Fall of Napoleon, in 1815, to the Accession of by Archibald Alison (1854)
"CHAP. Another naval victory of still greater magnitude graced 1825. 24th May,
the capitan Pacha put to sea from the Dar- Victory'of ..."
3. Letters Received by the East India Company from Its Servants in the East by East India Company, Frederick Charles Danvers, William Foster (1896)
"EAST INDIA COMPANY'S RECORDS 86 The copy of a letter written by the Aga of Mocha
and Mammy capitan unto Sir Henry Middleton; dated the 28th of June, 1612. ..."
4. The Annual Register edited by Edmund Burke (1829)
"... the capitan Pacha, refuses to Saw.. render— Yussuf Pacha betrays the Place—The
capitan Pacha, with Three Hundred Men, retires into the Citadel—He is ..."
5. The United Service (1903)
""To capitan Constancia as well." "Oh, indeed, and the large one at the end of
the street with the garden around it?" "That is the home of capitan Constancia ..."
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