Largs
a watering-place of Ayrshire, Scotland, on the Firth of Clyde, 14 miles S. of Greenock. Here, Oct. 12, 1263, a war between Scotland and the Norse colonies of Man and the Isles, Alexander III. defeated Haco of Norway, who with 160 ships and 20,000 men had descended on the coast of Ayrshire.
LARISSA (lä-re'sä) (called by the Turks Yenisher), famous in ancient times as the chief town of Thessaly, now the capital of the monarchy of Larissa in Northern Greece; on the Salambria (ancient Peneus), in the fertile plain of Thessaly; has manufactures of silk and cotton goods and tobacco; and is the seat of a Greek archbishop. Larissa was the center of the Turkish operations in the war of Greek liberation; it was ceded by Turkey to Greece in 1881. Pop. about 18,000, one-third Greeks and one-third Turks.
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