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Art. XI.—A Turkish Circle Ode,1 by Shahin-Ghiray, Khan of the Crimea. With Translation, Memoir of the Author, and a brief Account of the Khanate of the Crimea, its Connexion with Turkey, and its Annexation by Catherine the Second of Russia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2011

J. W. Redhouse
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Shahin-Ghiray, the author of the ingenious ode here given, was the last khan of the Crimea, having been reinstated for a short time before the Empress Catherine the Second declared the annexation of the country to her own dominions.

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Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society , Volume 18 , January 1861 , pp. 400 - 415
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Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 1861

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1 In this ode, ns figured in the separate lithograph plate, the letter at the centre is the first and last letter of every distich; the letters in the radii are the penultimates of each distich, aud, read inversely, follow the initial in the next succeeding distich. The words in the intersectional compartments are common to each of the intersecting verses. The ode begins and ends at the centre, through the radius which points directly upwards.