Chaille-Long
CHARLES (shastaff and sent him on a mission to King Mtesa of Uganda. From 1887 to 1889 French parentage, in Baltimore, Md., he was secretary of legation and consul- 1843. After serving in the Confederate general of the United Congress and in 1900 of the special commission to the Paris Exposition. He In 1897 he was a member of the Postal ited States in Korea. died in 1917. He wrote: "The Three (1887); "My Life in Four Continents" Prophets" (1886); "Central Africa" (1912). city of ancient Bithynia, opposite Byzantium (Constantinople), at the entrance of the Black Sea modern Scutari. It was a flourishing town when it came into possession of the Romans, under the testament of CHALCEDON (kāl-sēdon), a Greek Nicomedes, 74 B. c., as included in the kingdom of Bithynia. It was finally de- Sea , about 2 miles S. of the CHALCIS stroyed by the Turks, by whom it was taken, about 1075. In ecclesiastical history it is important as the place at which, in 451, Marcian held the general council for destroying the influence of Dioscuros and the Monophysites by formulating the belief in the existence of two natures in Christ.
CHALCIS (kal'sis), a Greek town, anciently the chief town of Eubœa, separated by the narrow strait of Euripus from the Bœotian coast, on the mainland of Greece, with which it was connected by a bridge. Chalcis, which is mentioned by Homer, early became one of the greatest of the Ionic cities, carrying on an extensive commerce, and planting numerous colonies in Syria, Macedonia, Italy, Sicily, and the islands of the Ægean Sea. It was subsequently a place of importance under the Romans. There is still a town on the site, consisting of an inner walled town and an outer suburb. Pop. about 17,500.