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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 241 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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BORA , an See also:

ITALIAN

Italian name for a violent See also:

COLD (in O. Eng. cald and ceald, a word coming ultimately from a root cognate with the Lat. gelu, gelidus, and common in the Teutonic languages, which usually have two distinct forms for the substantive and the adjective, cf. Ger. Kolte, kalt, Dutch koude

cold northerly and See also:

north-easterly See also:

wind, See also:

COMMON

common in the Adriatic, especially on the Istrian and Dalmatian coasts. There is always a See also:

NORTHERN

northern tendency in the winds on the north Mediterranean shores in See also:

winter owing to the cold See also:

air of the mountains sliding down to the See also:

sea where the pressure is less. When, therefore, a See also:

CYCLONE (Gr. KVKAwv, whirling, from KbK)^os, a circle)

cyclone is formed over the Mediterranean, the currents in its north-western See also:

AREA

area draw the air ,from the cold northern regions, and during the passage of the cyclone the bora prevails. The bora also occurs at See also:

NOVOROSSIYSK

Novorossiysk on the See also:

Black Sea. It is precisely similar in See also:

CHARACTER (Gr. xapareri7p, from xap&crew, to scratch)

character to the See also:

mistral which prevails in See also:

PROVENCE (Provincia, Proenza)

Provence and along the See also:

French Mediterranean littoral.

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