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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 133 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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ANTIPAROS (anc. Oliaros)

ANTIPAROS (anc. Oliaros) , an See also:

ISLAND (O.E. ieg =isle, +land')

island of the See also:

KINGDOM

kingdom of See also:

GREECE

Greece, in the See also:

MODERN

modern eparchy of See also:

NAXOS

Naxos, separated by a strait (about 12 m. wide at the narrowest point) from the See also:

west See also:

COAST (from Lat. costa, a rib, side)

coast of See also:

PAROS, or PARO

Paros. It is 7 m. See also:

long by 3 broad, and contains about 700 inhabitants, most of whom live in Kastro, a See also:

VILLAGE

village on the See also:

north coast, and are employed in See also:

agriculture and fishing. Formerly piracy was See also:

COMMON

common. The only remarkable feature in the island is a stalactite cavern on the See also:

south coast, which is reached by a narrow passage broken by two steep and dangerous descents which are accomplished by the aid of rope-ladders. The grotto itself, which is about 150 ft. by too, and 5o ft. high (not all can be seen from any See also:

PART

part, and probably some portions are still unexplored); shows many remarkable examples of stalactite formations and incrustations of dazzling brilliance. It is not mentioned by See also:

ancient writers; the first western traveller to visit it was the See also:

MARQUIS

marquis de Nointel (See also:

AMBASSADOR (also EMBASSADOR, the form sometimes still used in America; from the Fr. ambassadeur, with which compare Ital. ambasciatore and Span. embajador, all variants of the Med. Lat. ambassiator, ambassiator, ambasator, &c., derived from Med. Lat. amba

ambassador of See also:

Louis XIV. to the See also:

PORTE, THE SUBLIME (Arab. babi-'ali, the high gate, through the French translation la sublime porte)

Porte) who descended it with a numerous See also:

SUITE (Suite de pieces; Ordre; Partita)

suite and held high See also:

mass there on See also:

CHRISTMAS (i.e. the Mass of Christ)

Christmas See also:

day 1673. There is, however, in the entrance of the cavern an inscription recording the names of visitors in ancient times. See J. P. de See also:

TOURNEFORT, JOSEPH PITTON DE (1656-1708)

Tournefort, Relation d'un voyage au See also:

LEVANT

Levant (1717) ; See also:

ENGLISH

English edition, 1718, vol. i. p. 146, and See also:

GUIDE (in Mid. Eng. gyde, from the Fr. guide; the earlier French form was guie, English " guy," the d was due to the Italian form guida; the ultimate origin is probably Teutonic, the word being connected with the base seen in O. Eng. witan, to know)

guide-books to Greece.

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