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Santa Maura
(Encyclopedia)Santa Maura, Greece: see Lefkás.Ólimbos
(Encyclopedia)Ólimbos: see Olympus, mountains, Greece. ...Peneus
(Encyclopedia)Peneus, river: see Piniós, river, Greece. ...Ólonos, Mount
(Encyclopedia)Ólonos, Mount: see Erymanthos, mountains, Greece. ...Vistrítsa
(Encyclopedia)Vistrítsa, river: see Aliákmon, river, Greece. ...Taínaron, Cape
(Encyclopedia)Taínaron, Cape, Greece: see Matapan, Cape. ...Church, Sir Richard
(Encyclopedia)Church, Sir Richard, 1784–1873, British army officer. After varied service, he organized a Greek regiment to defend (1812–15) the Ionian Islands, and in 1827 he was made generalissimo of the Greek...Strimón
(Encyclopedia)Strimón: see Struma, river, Bulgaria and Greece. ...Robinson, Jackie
(Encyclopedia)Robinson, Jackie (Jack Roosevelt Robinson), 1919–72, American baseball player, the first African-American player in the modern major leagues, b. Cairo, Ga. He grew up in Pasadena, Calif., where he b...Komotiní
(Encyclopedia)Komotiní kômətĭnēˈ [key], city (1991 pop. 39,927), capital of Rodhópi prefecture, NE Greece, in Thrace. It is the commercial center for a region that produces grains, silk, and tobacco. The cit...Browse by Subject
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