Cyzicus
1000 Classical Characters: One of the most ancient and powerful of the Greek cities in Asia Minor, stood upon an island of the same name in the Propontis (Sea of Marmora). This island lay close to the shore of Mysia, to which it was united by two bridges, and afterwards (under Alexander the Great) by a mole, which has accumulated to a considerable isthmus.
Collier's New Encyclopedia: a peninsula of Asia Minor, 70 miles S. W. of Constantinople. It was once an island, and the site of an ancient town of the same name.
Covered by 1000 Classical Characters and Collier's New Encyclopedia
Czar
Aiton's Encyclopedia: zar, the ordinary title of the emperor of Russia. It has long been considered a corruption of the word Caesar, used by the emperors of Rome and the East, as Caesar Augustus. Modern scholarship is rather of the opinion, however, that the word, czar or tsar, is of Tartar origin--a survival of the time when that people occupied eastern Europe. The czar is not only the arbitrary ruler of his people; but he is the sacred head of the Greek Church , the national church of Russia.
Collier's New Encyclopedia: a king; formerly the title of the Emperor of Russia. It was first assumed by Ivan IV., in 1547.
Covered by Aiton's Encyclopedia and Collier's New Encyclopedia