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ARGOSTOLI (anc. Cephallenia)

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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 482 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ARGOSTOLI (anc. Cephallenia)  , the
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capital of
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Cephalonia (one of the Ionian islands), and the seat of a
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bishop of the
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Greek
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church . Pop. about ro,0oo . It possesses an excellent
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harbour, a
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quay a mile in length, and a
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fine
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bridge .
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Shipbuilding and
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silk-
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spinning are carried on . Near at
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hand are the ruins of Cranii, which afford fine examples of Greek military
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architecture; and at the
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west
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side of the harbour there is a curious stream, flowing from the
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sea, and employed to drive
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mills before losing itself in caverns inland . See
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Sir C .
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Fellows's
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Journal of an Excursion in
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Asia
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Minor in 1838, and Wiebel's
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Die Insel Kephalonia and die Meermuhlen von
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Argostoli (
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Hamburg, 1873) .

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