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Rhodope

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Rhodope

Department of Greece in western Thrace, between the Bulgarian border and the Aegean Sea; area 2,543 sq km/982 sq mi; population (1991) 103,200. The eastern foothills of the Rhodope Mountains extend into the region. The capital is Komotiní.



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But drive farr off the barbarous dissonance Of BACCHUS and his Revellers, the Race Of that wilde Rout that tore the THRACIAN Bard In RHODOPE, where Woods and Rocks had Eares To rapture, till the savage clamor dround Both Harp and Voice; nor could the Muse defend Her Son.
Paradise Lost by Milton, John View in context
At an epoch when, as Monsieur de Valois said, Woman no longer existed, she was simply "Madame du Val-Noble"; in other days she would have rivalled the Rhodopes, the Imperias, the Ninons of the past.
An Old Maid by de Balzac, Honore View in context
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