AN UNFORTUNATE CITY.
Constantinople has been wholly or partially destroyed by fire over twenty times, in addition to being decimated by plague and earthquake. Twelve thousand houses were burned and 7000 people lost their lives there in A similar nunilter of buildings were destroyed ten years later, and another 10.000 in 17->O. Enormous damage was inflicted on the unfortunate city in 1751, 1706, 1701, 17<>o. 1767, 1709 and 1771. Again, after several disastrous conflagrations in the intervening years, involving the loss of over 20,000 houses and fifty mosques, the year 1791 witnessed an outbreak which resulted in the total destruction of 32,000 houses, with a corresponding loss of life. In fact even to the present day Constantinople is a distinctly huwrdou* city for property owners.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 264, 8 November 1939, Page 11
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125AN UNFORTUNATE CITY. Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 264, 8 November 1939, Page 11
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