PREVEZA.
the town which has suddenly sprung into importance in connection with the Tripoli embroglio, is «sitnated in the South of Epirus or Southern Albania; and is a bishop's see It stands on the.ruins of the ancient Nieopolis, built -by the Em r peror Augustus in memory of his victory over Antony at Actium (31 8.C.) * It w<as taken by the Venetians in 1684, ceded to the Turks in. 1718, taken by the French in 1798, and re-taken by the Turks in the following year. 3 is seated on a mountain, on the Gulf of Art a, the ancient Sinus Amibracius, and is .70 miles north-west of Lepanto, where in 1571 the Turks met with their first ■gieat naval reverse at the 'hands of Dor, John of Austria.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10442, 6 October 1911, Page 4
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128PREVEZA. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10442, 6 October 1911, Page 4
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