or ABODRITES, in History, the name of a people bordering on Bulgaria, in that part of Dacia contiguous to the Danube. The country of the Abodrites, now called Mecklenburg, was a part of the ancient Vandalia.

ABOUKIR, a small town of Egypt, situated in the desert between Alexandria and Rosetta. It is the ancient Canopus, and is situated, according to Mr Savary, six leagues from Pharos. Pliny says, from the testimonies of antiquity, that it was formerly an island: and its local appearance makes this credible. The town is built upon a rock, which forms a handsome road for shipping, and was out of the reach of inundations. In the bay of Aboukir, a signal victory was obtained in 1798 by the English fleet over the French fleet. The town was taken from the Turks, after a vigorous defence, by the French in 1799, and retaken by the English in 1801.