Syra, an island of the Cyclades group, in the Ægean Sea, 10 m, by 5 m., with a capital called also Hermoupolis; on the E. coast is the seat of the government of the islands, and the chief port.
Population (circa 1900) given as 31,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Synoptic Gospels * Syracuse