{"article":{"id":"britannica-11-astropalia","work_id":"britannica-11","title":"Astropalia","normalized_title":"astropalia","slug":"astropalia","aliases":[],"subtitle":"Internet Archive OCR import","body_text":"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 Roman emperors recognized it as a free state, and in the middle ages it was called Slampalia, and belonged to the noble Venetian family of Quirini. It was taken by the Turks in the i6th century, and is now noted for its sponges. The customs and dress of the people, who speak a patois of romaic origin, are interesting.","body_html":"<p>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 Roman emperors recognized it as a free state, and in the middle ages it was called Slampalia, and belonged to the noble Venetian family of Quirini. It was taken by the Turks in the i6th century, and is now noted for its sponges. The customs and dress of the people, who speak a patois of romaic origin, are interesting.</p>","volume_id":"britannica-11-v2","page_range_label":"Vol. 2, pp. 819-819","source_url":"https://archive.org/details/encyclopaediabri02chisrich/page/n882/mode/1up","text_source_url":"https://archive.org/download/encyclopaediabri02chisrich/encyclopaediabri02chisrich_djvu.txt","scan_source_url":"https://archive.org/details/encyclopaediabri02chisrich","quality_status":"ocr-imported-page-aligned","parser_version":"ia-djvu-xml-v1","page_refs":[{"page_number":"819","label":"p. 819","image_url":"/source-assets/scans/britannica-11/encyclopaediabri02chisrich/encyclopaediabri02chisrich_0883.jpg","source_image_url":"https://archive.org/download/encyclopaediabri02chisrich/encyclopaediabri02chisrich_jp2.zip/encyclopaediabri02chisrich_jp2%2Fencyclopaediabri02chisrich_0883.jp2&ext=jpg","source_url":"https://archive.org/details/encyclopaediabri02chisrich/page/n882/mode/1up"}]},"work":{"id":"britannica-11","slug":"britannica-11","title":"Encyclopaedia Britannica","short_title":"Britannica 11th","edition":"11th edition","publisher":"Cambridge University Press","publication_start_year":1910,"publication_end_year":1911,"language":"English","country":"United Kingdom / United States","copyright_status_note":"First published before 1931; treated as public domain in the United States. Verify jurisdiction before redistribution outside the U.S.","source_quality":"mixed-clean-and-ocr","text_source_url":"https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica","scan_source_url":"https://archive.org/details/encyclopaediabri","volumes":[{"id":"britannica-11-v1","volume_number":"1","title":"A to Androphagi","year":1910,"source_url":"https://archive.org/details/encyclopaediabri01chisrich","text_source_url":"https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica","scan_source_url":"https://archive.org/details/encyclopaediabri01chisrich","page_count":1084},{"id":"britannica-11-v2","volume_number":"2","title":"Andros to Austria","year":1910,"source_url":"https://archive.org/details/encyclopaediabri02chisrich","text_source_url":"https://archive.org/download/encyclopaediabri02chisrich/encyclopaediabri02chisrich_djvu.txt","scan_source_url":"https://archive.org/details/encyclopaediabri02chisrich","page_count":null},{"id":"britannica-11-v9","volume_number":"9","title":"Edwardes to Evangelical Association","year":1910,"source_url":"https://archive.org/details/encyclopaediabrit09chisrich","text_source_url":"https://archive.org/download/encyclopaediabrit09chisrich/encyclopaediabrit09chisrich_djvu.txt","scan_source_url":"https://archive.org/details/encyclopaediabrit09chisrich","page_count":null},{"id":"britannica-11-v26","volume_number":"26","title":"Submarine Mines to Tom-Tom","year":1911,"source_url":"https://archive.org/details/encyclopaediabri26chisrich","text_source_url":"https://archive.org/download/encyclopaediabri26chisrich/encyclopaediabri26chisrich_djvu.txt","scan_source_url":"https://archive.org/details/encyclopaediabri26chisrich","page_count":null},{"id":"britannica-11-v27","volume_number":"27","title":"Tonality to Vesuvius","year":1911,"source_url":"https://archive.org/details/encyclopaediabri27chisrich","text_source_url":"https://ia903207.us.archive.org/15/items/encyclopaediabri27chisrich/encyclopaediabri27chisrich_djvu.txt","scan_source_url":"https://archive.org/details/encyclopaediabri27chisrich","page_count":null}]}}