Missolonghi, Greek seaport and fishing town, on the Gulf of Patras, chiefly noted for heroic defences in the War of Independence 1821-1826, and as the place of Byron's death 1824.
Population (circa 1900) given as 6,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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