 In general , Geographia Neoteriki , was welcomed with enthusiasm by western intellectual circles . Jean @-@ Baptiste d <unk> de <unk> , professor of modern Greek in the Ecole des <unk> Orientales <unk> , used it as a textbook for his students . French geographer Barbie du Bocage published a review after the book 's publication along with a translated passage . Moreover , travellers who published accounts during the early 19th century , frequently cited the text . François Pouqueville , William Martin Leake , Henry Holland , and Lord Byron mentioned this work , and used it as a source of information . The book also enjoyed some popularity in the non Greek regions of the Balkan peninsula , while 19th century Bulgarian authors of geographic textbooks used it as a model . 
