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Britannica 11th

Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition

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Temenos

Britannica 11th

TEMENOS (Gr. re/wvos, -rkiivtiv, to cut), the Greek term in archaeology given to a piece of land which forms the enclosure of a temple, or sanctuary.

Vol. 26, pp. 577-577 OCR text aligned to scanned pages Relevance 330.0

Enos

Britannica 11th

ENOS (anc. Aenos), a town of European Turkey, in the vilayet of Adrianople; on the southern shore of the river Maritza, where its estuary broadens to meet the Aegean Sea in the Gulf of Enos. Pop. (1905) about 8000. Enos occupies a ridge of rock surrounded by b

Vol. 9, pp. 652-652 OCR text aligned to scanned pages Relevance 32.73