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Icaria
[ ih-ker-ee-uh, ih-kuh-ree-uh; Greek ee-kah-ree-ah ]
noun
- Also Ikaria. a Greek island in the Aegean Sea: a part of the Southern Sporades group. 99 sq. mi. (256 sq. km).
- any of the former Utopian communities founded by the followers of Étienne Cabet, especially the one established at Nauvoo, Illinois, in 1849.
Icaria
/ ɪ-; aɪˈkɛərɪə /
noun
- a Greek island in the Aegean Sea, in the Southern Sporades group. Area: 256 sq km (99 sq miles) Modern Greek nameIkaría Also calledNikaria
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Cabet thereupon framed a constitution and sought the means of founding a real Icaria.
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The plucky and determined remnant, however, removed to Iowa, where on the prairie near Corning they planted a new Icaria.
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Finally in 1895 New Icaria, then reduced to a few veterans, was dissolved by a unanimous vote of the community.
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Icaria has no inhabitants, but it has pastures, of which the Samians avail themselves.
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"Icaria," probably Kerry, in Ireland, has been made into an island and carried far out into the Atlantic.
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