Zante, one of the Ionian Islands, 9 m. off the NW. coast of the Morea, is 24 m. long and 12 broad; raises currants, the produce of a dwarf vine, and exports large quantities annually. Zante (14), the capital, on a bay on the E. coast, is a clean and prosperous town, most so of any in the group of islands.
Population (circa 1900) given as 15,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Zangwill, Louis * Zanzibar