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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 279 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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NAUMBURG , a See also:

town of See also:Germany, in the See also:province of Prussian See also:Saxony, the seat of the provincial See also:law courts and See also:court of See also:appeal for the province and the neighbouring districts. It is situated on the See also:Saale, near its junction with the Unstrut, in the centre of an See also:amphitheatre of See also:vine-clad hills, 29 M. S.W. from See also:Halle, on the railway to See also:Weimar and See also:Erfurt. Pop. (1905) 25,137. almost entirely choked up, and is accessible only to the smallest See also:craft. See also:Naupactus is an episcopal see; pop. about 2500. In See also:Greek See also:legend it appears as the See also:place where the See also:Heraclidae built a See also:fleet to invade See also:Peloponnesus. In See also:historical times it belonged to the Ozolian Locrians; but about 455 B.c., in spite of a partial resettlement with Locrians of See also:Opus, it See also:fell to the Athenians, who peopled it with Messenian refugees and made it their See also:chief See also:naval station in western See also:Greece during the Peloponnesian See also:war. In 404 it was restored to the Locrians, who subsequently lost it to the See also:Achaeans, but recovered it through See also:Epaminondas. See also:Philip II. of Macedon gave Naupactus to the Aetolians, who held it till 191, when after an obstinate See also:siege it was surrendered to the See also:Romans. It was still flourishing about A.D.

170, but in Justinian's reign was destroyed by an See also:

earthquake. In the See also:middle ages it fell into the hands of the Venetians, who fortified it so strongly that in 1477 it successfully resisted a four months' siege by a See also:Turkish See also:army See also:thirty thousand strong; in 1499, however, it was taken by Bayezid II. The mouth of the Gulf of See also:Lepanto was the See also:scene of the See also:great See also:sea fight in which the naval See also:power of See also:Turkey was for the See also:time being destroyed by the See also:united papal, See also:Spanish and Venetian forces (See also:October 7, 1571). See LEPANTO, See also:BATTLE OF. In 1678 it was recaptured by the Venetians, but was again restored in 1699, by the treaty of See also:Karlowitz to the See also:Turks; in the war of See also:independence it finally became Greek once more (See also:March 1829). See See also:Strabo ix. pp. 426-427; See also:Pausanias x. 38. 10-13; See also:Thucydides i.-iii. passim; See also:Livy. bk. See also:xxxvi. passim; E. L. See also:Hicks and G. F.

See also:

Hill, Greek Historical See also:Inscriptions (See also:Oxford, 1901), No. 25.

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