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PIANOSA (anc. Planasia)

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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 574 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PIANOSA (anc. Planasia) , an See also:island of See also:Italy, belonging to the See also:province of See also:Leghorn, and forming See also:part of the communeof Marciana (See also:Elba), from which it is 71 m. S.W. Pop. (1881), 774. As its name indicates, it is quite See also:flat, and the highest point is only 95 ft. above See also:sea-level. Its See also:area is 6 sq. m. See also:Augustus banished to it his See also:grandson, See also:Agrippa Postumus, and some ruins of See also:baths near the See also:harbour still See also:bear his name. It changed hands more than once in the See also:wars between See also:Pisa and See also:Genoa in the 12th and 13th centuries; from 1390 it belonged to the See also:prince of See also:Piombino, but was depopulated in 1553 by the See also:Turkish See also:fleet, and only resettled at the beginning of the 19th See also:century. In 1857 a penal See also:colony was established here.

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