1910–1911
Britannica 11th
Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition
AR6YROKASTRO, or ARGYROCASTRON (Turkish, Ergeri; Albanian, Ergir Castri) , a town of southern Albania, Turkey, in the vilayet of lannina. Pop. (1900) about 11,000. Argyrokastro is finely situated 1060 ft. above sea-level, on the eastern slopes of the Acroceraunian mountains, and near the left bank of the river Dhrynos, a left-hand tributary of the Viossa. It is the capital of a sanjak bearing the same name, and was formerly important as the headquarters of the local Moslem aristocracy, partly owing to the mountaino…
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