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| | Turkey In Europe - Turkey Of The Greeks |
 | | Low ranges of hills rise close to the coast, increasing in height towards the west, until they attain an elevation of 2,930 feet in the Tekir Dagh, or "holy mountains," the grey slopes of which, covered here and there with patches of shrubs or pasturage, are visible from afar. |
| | A narrow neck of land joins the peninsula of Gallipoli—the Thracian Chersonesus of the ancients—to this coast range. |
| | The lowlands of this region form a vast triangular plain, bounded by the Tekir Dagh and the coast range on the south, by offshoots from the Rhodope on the west, and by the granitic mountains of Stranja on the east. |
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