Brindisi (Brin`disi) , a seaport of Southern Italy, on the Adriatic coast; has risen in importance since the opening of the Overland Route as a point of departure for the East; it is 60 hours by rail from London, and three days by steam from Alexandria; it was the port of embarkation for Greece in ancient times, and for Palestine in mediæval.
Population (circa 1900) given as 15,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Brillat-Savarin * Brindley, James