Pharsalus, now FERSALA, a town of Thessaly, to the south of Larissa, on a branch of the Salambria, and accordingly in the part of Thessaly restored to Greece in 1881; hence the Greeks had to retreat in April 1897. The district, Pharsalia, is historically notable mainly for Cæsar's great victory over Pompey, August 9, 48 B.C. See LUCANUS.
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