Leukas
LEUCADIA, or SANTA MAURA, one of the Ionian Islands, lies close to the W. coast of Greece; about 660 B.
C. the Corinthians cut through the peninsula that joined it to the mainland. It is 20 miles long by 8 wide, with an area of 110 square miles. The backbone of the island is a ridge of white limestone; hence the name (leukos, "white"). Wine, olive oil, and currants are the principal products. The island is much subject to earthquakes. Pop.
LEVER stood a temple to Apollo, and from which once a year a criminal was hurled into the sea by way of sacrifice. It was from the same point that Sappho, the the poetess, and Artemisia of Halicarthrew themselves into the waves. The capital, Amaxichi or Leukas, on the E. coast, is the seat of an archbishop, and has a population of 3,800. It was nearly destroyed by an earthquake in 1825.
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LEUTHEN (loi'ten), a village of won there, 1757, by Frederick the of Breslau, celebrated for the victory Great, with 34,000 men, over the Austrians under Prince Charles of Lorraine at the head of 90,000. The result was the reconquest of the greater part of Silesia by the Prussians. artist; born in Gmünd, Württemberg,