Magdala, an Abyssinian hill fortress on a lofty plateau 300 m. S. of Massowah; captured by Lord Napier, who had been sent in 1868 to rescue certain British subjects held prisoners there, and which he succeeded in doing.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Maffia * Magdalene, Mary