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It has important minerals, including iron and slate. Annexed to Belgium 1839. Area, 1,706 Population (1893), Luxemburg (luksemberg, B. pron. lök's em börg), F. Luxembourg (lük-son-bör′), old form Lützelburg. A grand duchy of Europe. Capital, Luxemburg. It is bounded by the Rhine Prov ince of Pru ia on the northeast and east, Lorraine on the south, France on the southwest, and Belgium on the west. The surface is a low table-land. It lies mainly in the basin of the Moselle, which is on its eastern border. The leading occupation is agriculture. Iron ore occurs in abun The government is a constitutional monarchy, ministered by a grand duke and a chamber of 45 deputies. It belongs to the German Zollverein. The religion is Roman Catholic. The prevailing language is German. Luxemburg formed part of the Holy Roman Empire. It was a countship in the middle ages. It furnished the emperors Henry VII. (1308), Charles IV. (1347), Wenceslaus (1378), and Sigismund (1411). It was united in personal union with Bohemia in 1310; became a duchy in 1854; and pa ed to Burgundy in 1443. It pa ed the Netherlands to the house of Hapsburg, and to Spain. Part of it was ceded to France in 1659. It was ceded to Austria in 1713, and was conquered by France 1794-95. By the Congre of Vienna (1815) it was made a grand duchy under the rule of the King of the Netherlands, and became a member of the Germanic Confederation. It joined the Belgian revolt against the Netherlands, and continued provisionally in Belgian hands until 1839, when part of it was ceded to Belgium, the King of the Netherlands ruling as grand duke over the remainder. It entered the Zollverein in 1842, and ceased to be a part of Germany in 1866. Its neutrality was guaranteed by the treaty of London in 1867. In 1890 the crown pa ed to Adolf of Na au. Area, 998 square miles. Population (1890), 211,088. Luxemburg, formerly Lützelburg. The capital of the grand duchy of Luxemburg, situated on the Petru e and Alzette in lat. 49° 37′ N., long. 6° 7' E. It has a remarkably picturesque situation, and consists of the Oberstadt and Unterstadt. For merly it was celebrated for its fortifications, strengthened by Vauban and others; and it has often been besieged. It was garrisoned by the Pru ians 1815-67. The fortifications were in great part demolished after the treaty of 1867. Population (1890), 18,187. Luxeuil (lük-sėy'). [L. Luxovium .] A town in the department of Haute-Saône, situated 17 miles northeast of Vesoul. It has noted mineral springs. It had an abbey in the middle ages. Population (1891), commune, 4,811. Luxor (luk'sôr or lök'sôr). A village in Upper Egypt, situated on the Nile, in lat. 25° 39′ N., on part of the site of the ancient Thebes. It is celebrated for its antiquities, which include a very large and complex temple built by Amenhotep III. and Rameses II. The buildings of Rameses form the present front of the temple, and were preceded, at the end of a great dromos of sphinxes leading to Karnak, by two beautiful obelisks of red granite, one of which remains in situ , and the other stands in the Place de la Concorde, Paris. Be Pyrénées, France, 26 miles south of Tarbes. It is noted for its springs and for its fortified church. Population (1891), commune, 1,507. Luzern. The German name of Lucerne. Luzon, or Luçon (lö-zon'; Sp. pron. lö-thon'). The largest island of the Philippines. The surface is largely mountainous. It contains Manila, the capital of the group. Area, 40,875 square miles. Population (1887), 3,442,941. Luzzara (löt-sä rä). A village in the province Lyell Lyck (lik). A town in the province of East Pru ia, Pru ia, situated on the river and lake Lyck in lat. 53° 49′ N., long. 22° 21′ E. Population (1890), 9,682. Lycon (li'kon). [Gr. Λύκων .] Lived in the 3d century B. C. A Greek Peripatetic philosopher. Λυκόφρον.] Βorn Lycophron (li'kof-ron). [Gr. Λυκόφ at Chalcis, Eubœa: lived in the 3d century B. c. A noted Alexandrian tragic poet and grammarian. His only extant poem is the "Alexandra" or "Cas comprising about 1,400 iambic verses, in which Cas sandra predicts the results of the voyage of Paris to Sparta. Po 14 miles south-southwest of Mantua. It was the scene of a drawn battle between the Imperialists under Prince Eugene and the French and Spanish forces under Vendôme, Aug. 15, 1702. Kouno Lvoff (l-vof'), (l-vof'), Alexei. Born at Reval, Ru ia, May 25 (N. S. June 5), 1799: died near Kovno, Ru ia, Dec. 16 (N. S. 28), 1870. A Ru ian composer, author of the Ru ian national hymn (1833). Lyæus us (li-ē'us). (li-e'us [Gr. Λναῖος .] In Greek mythology, the god who frees from care: a surname of Bacchus. IMG:content-0720.png:[blocks in formation] bettus (lik-a-bet'us). [Gr. Λυκαβηττός.] rocky hill rising amid the northeastern Lycabett Lycabettus A red rocky hill ri outskirts of Athens to a height of 910 feet above the sea, or 670 above the city. It is a very conspicuous object in the landscape, presenting from most points of the city the general form of an abrupt, slightly concave cone; there is, however, beyond a slight depres long ridge behind it. Upon the stands a small chapel of St. George. The view is very extensive. On the southern slope is the large reservoir built by Hadrian and Ant on in us Pius, which still supplies the city. Lycæus (li-sē'us). [Gr. Λυκαῖος , the Lycean; from Mount Lyceum in Arcadia.] In Greek mythology, a surname of Zeus. Lycaon (li-kā'on). [Gr. Λυκάων .] In Greek legend, a king of Arcadia, for his impiety changed into a wolf (or killed by lightning). Lycaonia (lik-a-ō'ni-ä). [Gr. Λυκαονία.] In ancient geography, a province of Asia Minor. Chief city, Iconium. It was bounded by Galatia on the north, Cappadocia on the east, Cilicia on the south, and Pisidia and Phrygia on the west. Sometimes it included Isauria, and sometimes it was included in Cappadocia. Surface elevated. mentioned in connection with a miracle performed by Peter. During the Judeo-Roman war it was destroyed by Cestius Gallus. After the uprising of Bar-Cochba it became the seat of a Talmud i cal school. It was also an episcopal see, and in 445 a council was held there at which Pelagius defended himself. Tradition makes it the birthplace of St. George, where he also was buried. In 1191 it was destroved by Salad in, and in 1271 sacked by the Mongols. At present a village (Ludd) with a church of St. George, situated between Ramleh and Jaffa. Lydgate (lid'gat), Doctor. A physician in George George Eliot's “Middle march." He is ambitious, but a selfish wife takes the savor out of his ambition, and he dies a comparatively young and obscure man. Lydgate, who has received a true vocation, whose intellectual pa ion predestines him to far-resonant action in the world of scientific research, -Lydgate, against whom the temptations of the flesh and the devil would have been idle, is subdued by that third enemy of man, the world, incarnated in the form of a creature [Rosamond] with feminine voice, swan-like neck, perfectly turned shoulders, exquisite curves of lip and eyelid, and, hidden behind these, the hardne of a little sordid soul.