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SILA

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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 89 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SILA  , a mountainous

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forest
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district of
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Calabria, Italy, to the E. of Cosenza, extending for some 37 M . N. to S. and 25 M . E. to W . The name goes back to the Greek period, and then probably belonged to a larger extension of territory than at
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present . In ancient times these mountains supplied
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timber to the Greeks for
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shipbuilding, the forests have given way to pastures to some extent; but a
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part of them, which belongs to the state, is maintained . Geologically these mountains, which consist of granite,
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gneiss and
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mica schist, are the
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oldest portion of the
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Italian peninsula; their culminating point is the Botte Donato (6330 ft.), and they are not
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free of snow until the
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late spring . They are very rarely explored by travellers .

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