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 Emperor of Believers.Empire City (The). 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Emperor of the Mountains,
 
king of the woods, and lord of the highways from Florence to Naples. A title assumed by Peter the Calabrian, a famous banditchief (1812).   1
 


 Emperor of Believers.Empire City (The). 

 
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