Tire old Turkish Empire included: ©even of tho -present capitals of Europe—Constantinople, Budapest, Athens, Belgrade, Sofia Bucharest, Cettinje. To-day, after 600 years! the empiro is broken in pieoes and has wasted to a. provinco and a capital. Tho rich purple of olden times was made by tho Tynans, and th? puxplo of Tyro is probably still tho most expensive dye in the .world. The dye is obtained from a emsll vein in little shell-fisli, looking like a nerwinkle. and enormous piles of their ahelli have been found near the ancient cities of tho Mediterranean.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18007, 6 August 1920, Page 6
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