This section is from the book "Chambers's Concise Gazetteer Of The World", by David Patrick. Also available from Amazon: Chambers's Concise Gazetteer Of The World.
Lashkar. See Gwalior.
Las Palmas, chief town of the Canary Islands, on the north-east coast of Gran Canaria, is the seat of a bishop. Pop. 47,800.
Lassa. See Lhassa.
Lasso'die, a collier-village of Fife, 4 miles NNE. of Dunfermline. Pop. 1300.
Lass wade', a Midlothian village, on the North Esk, 6 1/2 miles SSE. of Edinburgh. Drummond of Hawthornden is buried in the churchyard (memorial, 1893); and Scott and De Quincey lived here. Pop. 869.
Lataki'a (Turk. Ladikiyeh; anc. Laodicea ad Mare), a decayed seaport of Syria, with a sanded-up harbour, stands on a rocky cape 75 miles N. of Tripoli. It possesses remains of Roman buildings, and was still a wealthy city at the time of the Crusades. Pop. 20,000, who export the Latakia tobacco, grown on the hills in the interior, and some grain, silk, sponges, oils, etc.
Lathom House, the seat of the Earl of Lathorn, in Lancashire, 4 1/2 miles ENE. of Ormskirk. It is a Grecian mansion, built about 1750. Its predecessor was splendidly defended by Charlotte de la Tremouille, Countess of Derby, in 1644.
La Trappe. See Trappe, La. Lauban, a town of Prussian Silesia, on the Queiss, 15 miles B. of Gorlitz. Pop. 14,336.
Lauder, a quaint little royal burgh of Berwickshire, on Leader Water, 25 miles SB. of Edinburgh. Near it is Thirlestane Castle, the seat of the Earl of Lauderdale. Till 1885 with Haddington, etc. it returned one member. Pop. 719.
Lauenburg, or Saxe-Lauenburg, a German duchy, formerly united to the crown of Denmark, and lying on the Elbe's right bank between Hol-stein and Mecklenburg. In 1876 it was incorporated with Sleswick-Holstein, of which it is now a district. Area, 457 sq. m.; pop. 52,000. - The town of Lauenburg, once capital of the duchy, stands on the Elbe, 25 miles SE. of Hamburg. Pop. 5748. - Lauenburg, in Pomerania, 38 miles NW. of Danzig, has a pop. of 10,500.
Laugharne, or Llaugharne, a market-town at the Corran's influx to the Taf estuary, 12 miles SW. of Carmarthen. It has a fine church and a ruined castle. Pop. 1150.
Laurencekirk, a Kincardineshire market-town, 30 miles SW. of Aberdeen. The ' minstrel' Beattie was a native, and Ruddiman the grammarian was schoolmaster here. Pop. 1526. See Fraser's History of Laurencekirk (1880).
Laurentian Mountains. See Canada, p. 148.
Lauriston Castle, a Midlothian mansion, 3 3/4 miles WNW. of Edinburgh. It was the seat of the famous financier, John Law.
Laurium, a mountain (1171 feet) of Attica, NW. of Cape Colonna, and connected by a railway with Athens. It was famous for its silver-mines, already exhausted in Strabo's day. Since 1874, however, the great heaps of slag have been profitably worked, and fresh deposits found of argentiferous lead and of zinc ore. The modern mining-town has a pop. of over 8000.
Laurvik, a seaport of Norway, at the head of a small fjord on the west side of Christiania Fjord, 98 miles by rail SSW. of Christiania. It has several sawmills. Pop. 11,261.
 
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