Azoph

Azoph

1. 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.