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MEGARIS

Volume 13 · 101 words · 1810 Edition

in Ancient Geography, the country of the Megareans, is described as a rough region, like Attica; the mountain called Onian or the Asinine, now Macriplai or "the long Mountain," extending through it towards Boeotia and Mount Cithaeron. It belonged to Ionia or Attica, until it was taken by the Peloponnesians in the reign of Codrus, when a colony of Dorians settled in it. This territory had Attica to the east, Boeotia to the north and west, and the isthmus of Corinth to the south.

a small island in the Tuscan sea, joined to Naples by a bridge, now called Capo dell'Ovo.