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PROCIDA (Gr. Ilpoxi ro, Lat. Prochyta)

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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 417 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PROCIDA (Gr. Ilpoxi ro, See also:Lat. Prochyta)  , an See also:island off the See also:coast of See also:Campania, See also:Italy, 2 m . S.W. of See also:Capo Miseno, and 2 M . N.E. of See also:Ischia on the See also:west See also:side of the Gulf of See also:Naples, and about 12 M . S.W. of Naples . Pop . (1901), of the See also:town, 2520; of the whole island, one See also:commune, 14,440 . It is about 2 M. in length and of varying width, and, reckoning in the adjacent island of Vivara, is made up of four See also:extinct craters, parts of the margins of all of which have been destroyed by the See also:sea . The highest point of it is only 250 ft. above sea-level . It is very fertile, and the See also:population is engaged in the cultivation of vines and See also:fruit and in fishing . See also:Procida, the only town, lies on the See also:east side; its See also:castle is now a See also:prison . It also contains a royal See also:palace . Classical authors explained the name of Procida either as an allusion to its having been detached from Ischia, or as being that of the See also:nurse of See also:Aeneas .

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