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in Ancient Geography, an island in the Ionian Sea, on the coast of Epirus, the country of Ulysses, with a town and port situated at the foot of Mount Neius. According to Pliny, it is about twenty-five miles in compass, and according to Artemidorus only ten; but it is now found to be seventeen miles long and four broad. See article Ionian Isles.