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ARTA

Volume 3 · 65 words · 1842 Edition

or LARTA, a town of Lower Albania, in European Turkey, containing about 6000 inhabitants, Turks and Christians, who carry on a trade in cattle, wine, tobacco, cotton, flax, pulse, fur, leather, wheat, &c. They also manufacture cotton and woollen stuffs. Arta is situated about 9 miles from the gulf to which it gives name, otherwise called Prevesa. Long. 21. 8. E. Lat. 39. 80. N.