Elba


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Europe, Mediterranean, Italy Island Elba

Island, 86 sq miles, Tuscany, central Italy, in the Tyrrhenian Sea, 6 miles from the Ital. mainland, part of the Tuscan Archipelago; 42º46'N 10º17'E. Elba has come under numerous foreign powers, including Syracuse (mid-5th cent. B.C.), Pisa (11th cent. A.D.-A.D. 1399), Spain, and Naples. It was briefly (May 1814-Feb. 1815) a sovereign principality under the exiled Napoleon I, who improved the island’s roads and agr. After Napoleon’s dramatic escape from Elba and his subsequent exile to St. Helena Isl., Elba passed to Tuscany.

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Robert A. McCaughey

Compiler

Peter Richards

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