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METEORA , a See also:group of monasteries in See also:Thessaly, in the See also:northern See also:side of the Peneius valley, not quite 20 M. N.E. of See also:Trikkala, and near the See also:village of Kalabaka (the See also:ancient Aeginium, See also:medieval Stagus or Stagoi). From the Cambunian See also:chain two masses of See also:rock are thrust southward into the See also:plain, surmounted by isolated columns from 85 to 30o ft. high, " some like gigantic tusks, some like See also:sugar-loaves, and some like vast stalagmites," but all consisting of See also:iron-See also:grey or reddish-See also:- BROWN
- BROWN, CHARLES BROCKDEN (1771-181o)
- BROWN, FORD MADOX (1821-1893)
- BROWN, FRANCIS (1849- )
- BROWN, GEORGE (1818-188o)
- BROWN, HENRY KIRKE (1814-1886)
- BROWN, JACOB (1775–1828)
- BROWN, JOHN (1715–1766)
- BROWN, JOHN (1722-1787)
- BROWN, JOHN (1735–1788)
- BROWN, JOHN (1784–1858)
- BROWN, JOHN (1800-1859)
- BROWN, JOHN (1810—1882)
- BROWN, JOHN GEORGE (1831— )
- BROWN, ROBERT (1773-1858)
- BROWN, SAMUEL MORISON (1817—1856)
- BROWN, SIR GEORGE (1790-1865)
- BROWN, SIR JOHN (1816-1896)
- BROWN, SIR WILLIAM, BART
- BROWN, THOMAS (1663-1704)
- BROWN, THOMAS (1778-1820)
- BROWN, THOMAS EDWARD (1830-1897)
- BROWN, WILLIAM LAURENCE (1755–1830)
brown See also:conglomerate of See also:gneiss, See also:mica-See also:slate, See also:syenite and See also:green-See also:- STONE
- STONE (0. Eng. shin; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Stein, Du. steen, Dan. and Swed. sten; the root is also seen in Gr. aria, pebble)
- STONE, CHARLES POMEROY (1824-1887)
- STONE, EDWARD JAMES (1831-1897)
- STONE, FRANK (1800-1859)
- STONE, GEORGE (1708—1764)
- STONE, LUCY [BLACKWELL] (1818-1893)
- STONE, MARCUS (184o— )
- STONE, NICHOLAS (1586-1647)
stone. The monasteries stand on the See also:summit of these pinnacles; they are accessible only by aid of rope and See also:net worked by a windlass from the See also:top, or by a See also:series of almost perpendicular ladders climbing the cliff. In the See also:case of St See also:Stephen's, the See also:peak on which it is built does nor rise higher than the ground behind, from which it is separated by a deep, narrow chasm, spanned by a drawbridge. Owing to the confined See also:area, the buildings are closely packed, together; but each monastery contains beside the monks' cells and See also:water-cisterns, at least one See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church and a See also:refectory, and some also a library. At one See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time they were fourteen in number, but now not more than four (the See also:Great Monastery, See also:Holy Trinity, St Barlaam's and St Stephen's) are inhabited by more than two or three monks. The See also:present church of the Great Monastery was erected, according to See also:Leake's See also:reading of the See also:local inscription, in 1388 (Bjornstahl, the See also:Swedish traveller, had given 1371), and it is one of the largest and handsomest in See also:Greece. A number of the See also:manuscripts from these monasteries have now been brought to the See also:National Library at See also:Athens: Aeginium is described by See also:Livy as a strong See also:place, and is frequently mentioned during the See also:Roman See also:wars; and Stagus appears from time to time in See also:Byzantine writers.
See W. M. Leake, Northern Greece (4 vols., See also:London, 1835) ; See also:Professor Kriegk in Zeitschr. f. allg. Erdk. (See also:Berlin, 1858) ; H. F. Tozer, Re-searches in the See also:Highlands of See also:Turkey (1869) ; L. Heuzey and H. Daumet, See also:Mission archeologique de Macedoine (See also:Paris, 1876), where there is a See also:map of the monasteries and their surroundings; See also:Guide-Joanne; Grece, vol. ii. (Paris, 1891).
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