Elea, Megara, are towns in Greece, Famagusta is in Cyprus.
Agrigentum was a well-known Greek colony in Sicily; Fiume, at the head of the Adriatic Sea, is now an Austrian port.
Modon, a maritime town in the Peloponnesus.
Alep, Aleppo. Brousse, a town in Anatolia.
Damas, Damascus.
Tarvis (English Treviso) is a town in the province of Venice.
boyard. The boyards were the feudal nobles of Roumania and other Balkan countries.
Rhamséion, a sepulchral monument built by Ramses III, king of Egypt, in the fourteenth century B.C.
Généralife, the palace of the Moorish kings at Granada in Spain. It is scarcely necessary to say that no Turkish Sultan ever held any part of Spain.
échouait. The word is here used transitively (a rare use) in the sense of 'drove against.'