Azoph
English
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[edit]Azoph
- Rare spelling of Azov.
- 1818, Henry Hallam, View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, third edition, volume II, London: John Murray, published 1822, chapter vi: “History of the Greeks and Saracens.”, pages 190–191:
- In the fourth and last aggression of the Tartars, their progress in Europe is hardly perceptible; the Moguls of Timur’s army could only boast the destruction of Azoph, and the pillage of some Russian provinces.