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Le Leman Mans

Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)

LAKE. See. MANS See GENEVA, LE., LAKE. fortified place on Fortifod about 3,000. about 3 LEMBERG ( Polish name "Lwów"), the capital of the formerly Löwenburg; Austrian district of Galicia and Lodomeria; on a torical painter; In 1718 he became tributary of the Bug, in a narrow basin among Academy, and hills, 212 miles E. of Cracow. It is defended fessor of the in by a citadel, around which the the chapel of the modern town has church of St. Sulpice, ice Lemberg, a is the seat of a the rest of a archbishop Greek United, and an ited and an , and has nearly 30 nearly 30 Dominican contains greatly venerated contains a image of the Virgin; cathedral a the Virgin; , built he Italian 1740-1779; the Gothic Roman cathedral in the Italian othic Roman (1350-1640); and the cathedral al, 40); and the gfrom the Here also is the seat of institute, dating from the he seat of founded (1784) by a library d (1784) by 3,000 of over 81,000 over 81,000 There MSS., chiefly of Polish ly of Polish , cloth is a considerable trade rable trade Co ., leather, and agrileathe agrimachinery The manufactures The ma Founded in 1259, Lemberg sctures , earthen-ware, oil, earthen-ware, oil, in 1259, Lemberg city of Poland from of Poland from occasion been several times besieged, everal times besieged, in 1848. It fell to War first partition when of Poland. in 1848. It fell to the Russians partition of Poland. when the Russians Sept. in 1914, Lemberg was 1914, Lemberg was It June 3. It was retaken by 8. was vetaken by 22, 1915. Pop. about 22, 1915. Pop about Turkish island in the N. of the kish island in the N. part Ægean and Sea; 40 miles S. E. Sea; 40 miles S. E. about the same disabout the same disthe Dardanelles. It is he Dardanelles. It is another two by a large bay on the rge bay on the on the N. coast. the N. coast. miles; pop. about 27, pop, about 27 exc except are 5,000 Turks. The Turks: The antiquity corn, wine, and and all through corn, wine, and and all through the the most notable product Cable t " Lemnian earth, " ct "Le h." as as an antidote against a remedy in cases of ote against in cases of , in etc. It was extracted It was extracted the year, August 6, he year, August 6, spot of religious cereof religions pere near the ruined site near the ruined site city. It Hephæstia, in the hasts, in the has now gone out of repute, and It has now gune out very ttle is extracted Lemnos was regarded by little is extracted was regarded by sacred to Hephæstus. It Hephestus. It the Persians in the rsians in the Hystaspes them for; but Miltiades but Miltiades the Athenians. e Athenians. into the hands of the hands of the the Venetians. The chief the W. coast. Pop. The chief ancient Myrina), a Myrina), a Pop.

What Has Changed in the Last Century

This page is a garbled run-together of several entries, but the two that Collier's described in 1921 have both changed hands entirely. "Lemberg... the capital of the formerly Austrian district of Galicia" is today Lviv in western Ukraine: Polish between the wars, annexed by the Soviet Union in 1939 and again in 1945, and Ukrainian since independence in 1991, with a population of roughly 700,000 and a historic centre on the UNESCO World Heritage list since 1998. Its Jewish community, large in 1921, was destroyed in the Holocaust, and most of its Polish inhabitants were expelled after 1945. "Lemnos, Turkish island" is Greek, formally so since the settlements that followed the Balkan Wars and the First World War, and the "5,000 Turks" left in the population exchange of 1923; the entry is right that Lemnian earth, once sold as an antidote to poison, "has now gone out of repute."

Written for this edition, 2026.