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Britannica 11th

Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition

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Astropalia

Britannica 11th

ASTROPALIA (classical A sly polar*), an island, with good harbours, in the south part of the Aegean, situated in 36-5° N. and immediately west of 16-5° E. It was colonized by Megara, and its constitution and buildings arc known from numerous inscriptions. The ...

Vol. 2, pp. 819-819 OCR text aligned to scanned pages Relevance 330.0
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Australasia

Britannica 11th

AUSTRALASIA, a term used by English geographers in ft sense nearly synonymous with the Oceania of continental writer*. It thus comprises all the insular groups which extend almost continuously from the south-eastern extremity of Asia to more than half-way acro

Vol. 2, pp. 941-941 OCR text aligned to scanned pages Relevance 34.29
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