Lemnos
a Turkish island in the N. part of the AEgean Sea; 40 miles S. E. of the Ægean Sea; 40 miles S. E. of Mount Athos and about the same distance S. W. of the Dardanelles. It is nearly split in two by a large bay on the S. coast and another on the N. coast.
Area, 180 square miles; pop. about 27,- 000, all Greeks, except 5,000 Turks. The corn, wine, and tobacco. In anti antiquity and all through the Middle Ages the most notable product of the island was the "Lemnian earth," request as an antidote against snake bites, also as a remedy in cases of , etc. It was extracted only on one day in the year, August 6, of religious ceremonies, from a spot near the ruined site of the ancient city Hephæstia, in the N. E. of the island. It has now gone out every year. Lemnos was regarded by of repute, and very little is extracted the Greeks as sacred to Hephæstus. It was conquered by the Persians in the reign of Darius Hystaspes; but Miltiades wrested it from them for the Athenians. passed into the hands of the Turks, from the Venetians. The chief town is Kastro (the ancient Myrina), a about 3,000.
LEMAN, LAKE. See GENEVA, LAKE. fortified place on the W. coast. Pop. LE MANS. See MANS, LE.
LEMBERG Polish name "Lwów"), the capital of the ( formerly Löwenburg; Austrian district of Galicia and Lodotributary of the Bug, in a narrow basin among hills, 212 miles E. of Cracow. It is defended by a citadel, around which the modern town has torical painter; born in Paris in 1688.