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BELVEDERE

Volume 2 · 76 words · 1778 Edition

the Italian architecture, &c., denotes either a pavilion on the top of a building, or an artificial eminence in a garden; the word literally signifying a fine prospect.

considerable town of Greece, and capital of a province of the same name in the Morea. The province lies on the western coast: it is the most fertile and rich in all the Morea; and from it the raisins called Belvederes take their name. The town is situated