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BURANO

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 808 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BURANO  , a

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town of
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Venetia, in the
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province of
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Venice, on an
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island in the lagoons, 6 m . N.E. of Venice by
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sea . Pop . (1901) 8168 . It is a fishing town, with a large royal school of
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lace-making employing some 500 girls . It was founded, like all the towns in the lagoons, by fugitives from the Mainland cities at the
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time of the
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barbarian invasions .
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Torcello is a
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part of the
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commune of Burano .

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