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Encyclopedia Britannica



VOLO

This article appears in Volume V28, Page 196 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: VIR-WAT
VOLO , a town and seaport of
Greece
 , on the
east
 
coast
  of Thessaly, at the head of the gulf to which it gives its name. Pop. (1907) 23,319. It is the
chief
  seaport and second industrial town of Thessaly, connected by
rail
  with the town of Larissa. The anchorage is safe, vessels loading and discharging by means of lighters. The port has a
depth
  of 23 to 25 ft.
The Kastro, or citadel, of Vol() stands on or close to the site of Pagasae, whence the gulf took the name of Sinus Pagasaeus or Pagasicus, and which was one of the oldest places of which mention occurs in the legendary history of
Greece
 . From this port the Argonautic expedition was said to have sailed, and it was already a flourishing place under the
tyrant
  Jason, who from the neighbouring Pherae ruled over all Thessaly. Two miles farther
south
  stand the ruins of Demetrias, founded (290 B.c.) by Demetrius Poliorcetes, and for some time a favourite residence of the Macedonian kings. On the opposite side of the little inlet at the head of the gulf rises the hill of Episcopi, on which stood the ancient city of Iolcus. At Dimini, about 3 M. W. of Volo, several tombs have been found which yielded remains of the later Mycenean Age.


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