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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 802 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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PARGA , a seaport of See also:

ALBANIA

Albania, See also:

EUROPEAN

European See also:

TURKEY

Turkey, in the vilayet of See also:

IANNINA (i.e. " the city of St John "; Gr. Ioannina; Turk Yanid; also written Janina, Jannina, and, according to its Albanian pronunciation, Yanina)

Iannina, and on the Ionian See also:

Sea. Pop. (1905), about 5000, of whom the See also:

MAJORITY (Fr. majorite; Med. Lat. majoritas; Lat. major, greater)

majority are Greeks. Parga has a See also:

rock-built citadel and a See also:

HARBOUR (from M.E. hereberge, here, an army; cf. Ger. Heer and -beorg, protection or shelter. Other early forms in English were herberwe and haiborow, as seen in various place names, such as Market Harborough.. The French auberge, an inn, derived through

harbour formed by a See also:

mole which the Venetians constructed in 1572. It exports citrons, See also:

WOOL, WORSTED AND WOOLLEN MANUFACTURES

wool, See also:

OAK (O. Eng., (lc)

oak, bark and skins. Originally occupying the site of the See also:

ancient Toryne (or Palaeo-Parga), a See also:

SHORT, FRANCIS JOB (1857– )

short distance to the See also:

west, Parga was removed to its See also:

PRESENT

present position after the See also:

TURKISH

Turkish invasion in the 15th See also:

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century. Under Venetian See also:

PROTECTION

protection, freely accepted in 1401, the inhabitants maintained their municipal See also:

independence and commercial prosperity down to the destruction of the Venetian See also:

REPUBLIC (Lat. respublica, a commonweal or common-wealth)

republic in 1797, though on two occasions, in 1500 and I 56o, their See also:

CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city was burned by the See also:

TURKS

Turks. The attempts of See also:

ALI

Ali See also:

PASHA

Pasha of Iannina to make himself See also:

MASTER (Lat. magister, related to tnagis, more, as the corresponding minister is to minus, less; the English form is due partly to the O. Eng. maegister, and partly to O. Fr. maistre, mod. maitre; cf. Du. meester, Ger. Meister, Ital. maestro)

master of the See also:

PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place were thwarted partly by the presence of a See also:

French See also:

garrison in the citadel and partly by the heroic attitude of the Pargiotes them-selves, who were anxious to have their city incorporated with the Ionian Republic. To secure their purpose they in 1814 expelled the French garrison and accepted See also:

BRITISH

British protection; but the British See also:

Government in 1815 determined to go back to the See also:

convention of 'Soo by which Parga was to be surrendered to Turkey, though nc See also:

MOSQUE (through Fr. mosquie; Span. mezquila, from Arab. masjid, sajada, to adore)

mosque was to be built or Mussulman to See also:

settle within its territory. Rather than subject themselves to the tyranny of Ali Pasha, the Pargiotes decided to forsake their See also:

COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country; and accordingly in 1819, having previously exhumed and burned the remains of their ancestors, they migrated to the Ionian Islands. The Turkish government was constrained to pay them £142,425 by way of See also:

COMPENSATION (from Lat. compensare, to weigh one thing against another)

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