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ACROATHOUM

Volume 1 · 43 words · 1797 Edition

or ACROTHOUM (anc. geog.), a town situated on the top of mount Athos, where the inhabitants, according to Mela, were longer lived by half than in any other country: called by the modern Greeks, Αγοράς; by the Italians, La Cima di Monte Santo.