Patras, on the NW. corner of the Morean Peninsula, on the shores of the Gulf of Patras; has a fine harbour; is the chief western port of Greece, shipping currants, olive-oil, and wine, and importing textiles, machinery, and coal; it is a handsome city, in the present century rebuilt and fortified.
Population (circa 1900) given as 37,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Paton Sir Joseph Noel * Patriarch