Leghorn

Leghorn, a flourishing Italian seaport, on the W. coast, 60 m. from Florence; is a fine city, with broad streets and many canals; its exports include wine, silk, oil, marble, and straw hats; it imports spirits, sugar, and machinery; it does a large and increasing coasting trade, and manufactures coral ornaments; its prosperity dates from the 15th century; it was a free port till 1868.

Population (circa 1900) given as 106,000.

Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)

Legge, James * Legion
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Leeds
Leeds, Thomas Osborne, Duke of
Leeuwenhoek, Anton van
Lefort, François Jacob
Left, The
Legalism
Le Gallienne, Richard
Legate
Legendre, Adrien Marie
Legge, James
Leghorn
Legion
Legion of Honour
Legitimists
Leibnitz
Leicester
Leicester, Robert Dudley, Earl of
Leicestershire
Leigh, Aurora
Leighton, Frederick, Lord
Leighton, Robert

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