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MELEDA (Serbo-Croatian, Mljet; See also:Lat. Melita) , the most southerly and easterly of the larger Adriatic islands of the See also:Austrian See also:province of See also:Dalmatia. Pop. (1900), 1617: Meleda lies See also:south of the Sabioncello promontory, from which it is divided by the Meleda Channel. Its length is 23 m.; its See also:average breadth 2 m. It is of volcanic origin, with numerous chasms and See also:gorges, of which the longest, the Babinopolje, connects the See also:north and south of the See also:island. See also:Port Palazzo, the See also:principal See also:harbour, on the north, is a port of See also:call for tourist steamers. Meleda has been regarded as the Melita on which St See also:Paul was shipwrecked, this view being first expounded, in the loth See also:century, by See also:Constantine Porphyrogenitus. As at See also:Malta, a " St Paul's See also:Bay " is still shown.

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