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BOLEYN

Volume 4 · 86 words · 1860 Edition

ANNE. See ANNE BOLEYN.

BOLLI, a town of Asiatic Turkey, in Natolia, 85 miles N.W. of Angora. It is the capital of a district, and the residence of a governor, and contains numerous public edifices, though nowise remarkable in their structure. In the vicinity are the ruins of the ancient Hadrianopolis, and many marble fragments with Greek inscriptions. The country around is fertile; and in the neighbourhood is an extensive forest, which supplies Constantinople with a great quantity of wood. Long. 31.19 E. Lat. 40.35 N.