Gallipoli (the Kallipolis of the Greeks), a town of Southern Italy, is built on a steep insulated rock in the Gulf of Taranto, connected with the mainland by a bridge, and is 59 miles by rail S. of Brindisi. The harbour is protected by a mole and fortified. The town contains a handsome cathedral, and is remarkable for its oil-tanks, excavated in the solid rock, in which olive-oil is deposited for exportation. Pop. 8083.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 5: Friday to Humanitarians, p. 66
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