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MONTECRISTO (anc. Oglasa)

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 764 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MONTECRISTO (anc. Oglasa)  , an island of Italy, belonging to the province of Leghorn, 25 M . S. of Elba . Its highest point is 2126 ft. above sea-level, and its
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area about 6 sq. m . It contains the ruins of a Camaldulensian monastery, founded in the 13th century and destroyed in the 16th, and is the private
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property of the king of Italy, who has a
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shooting-lodge there . The fame of the island is due to the novel, Le Comte de Montecristo, by the elder Dumas .

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