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ABBE (Serbo-Croatian Rai))

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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 323 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ABBE (Serbo-Croatian Rai)) , an See also:island in the Adriatic See also:Sea, forming the northernmost point of See also:Dalmatia, See also:Austria. Pop. (1900) 4441. Arbe is 13 M. See also:long; its greatest breadth is 5 M. The See also:capital, which bears the same name, is a walled See also:town, remarkable, even among the Dalmatian cities, for its beauty. It occupies a steep See also:ridge jutting out from the See also:west See also:coast. At the seaward end of this promontory is the 13th-See also:century See also:cathedral; behind which the belfries of four churches, at least as See also:ancient, rise in a See also:row along the See also:crest of the ridge; while behind these, again, are the See also:castle and a background of desolate hills. Many of the houses are roofless and untenanted; for, after five centuries of prosperity under Venetian or Hungarian See also:rule, an outbreak of See also:plague in 1456 swept away the See also:majority of the townsfolk, and ruined the survivors. Some of the old palaces are, nevertheless, of considerable See also:interest; one especially as the birthplace of the celebrated philosopher, Marc See also:Antonio de See also:Dominis. Fishing and See also:agriculture constitute the See also:chief re-See also:sources of the islanders, whose ancient See also:silk See also:industry is still maintained. In ro18 the yearly See also:tribute due to See also:Venice was fixed at ten pounds of silk or five pounds of See also:gold.

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