Leopoldville
a village in the Belgian Kongo, West Africa. A railroad extends from Matadi 248 miles away to this town. A pipe line of about the same length connects the two cities, and through it oil is pumped to supply fuel for steamers on the Kongo river.
Pop. about 16,000.
LEPANTO (anciently Naupactus, now called by the Greeks Epakto), a small town of Greece, on the N. side of the entrance to the Gulf of Corinth. During the Peloponnesian war it was one of the chief naval stations of the Athenians. In the Middle Ages it was given by the Byzantine emperor to the Venetians, who fortified it so strongly that in 1477 it stood a siege of four months by 30,000 Turks and in 1499 was only taken by Bajazet II. at the head of 150,000 men. Near Lepanto took place the celebrated naval battle between the Turks on one side and the Papal galleys, and those of the Venetians and LEPIDUS the Spaniards, on the other, on Oct. 7, 1571, in which the Christians, comachieved a decisive victory. In this batmanded by Don Juan of Austria, tle Cervantes lost an arm. The town became Greek in 1829.