CHIMÆRA, in geography, a port-town of Turkey in Europe, situated at the entrance of the gulph of Venice, in the province of Epirus, about thirty-two miles north of the city Corfu, near which are the mountains of Chimæra, which divide Epirus from Thessaly: E. long. 20^{\circ} 40', and N. lat. 40^{\circ} 20'.