Encyclopædia Britannica, First Edition/Chimæra

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CHIMÆRA, in geography, a port town of Turky in Europe, situated at the entrance of the gulph of Venice, in the province of Epirus, about thirty-two miles north of the city Corfu, near which are the mountains of Chimæra, which divide Epirus from Thessaly: E. long. 20° 40′, and N. lat. 40° 20′.