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Santa Maura
[ sahn-tah mou-rah ]
Santa Maura
/ ˈsanta ˈmaura /
noun
- the Italian name for Levkás
Example Sentences
From his own statements made in 1889, the notes of which, taken down at the moment, are before me, he was born on June 27, 1850, at Leucadia, in Santa Maura, one of the Ionian Islands.
It was accordingly determined to lay siege to Santa Maura, in the island of Leucadia, a strongly-fortified place, which commanded the northern entrance into the Gulf of Lepanto.
As the steamer crossed from Santa Maura to Cephalonia we had a clear view of little Ithaca, the Ithaca which Ulysses loved, "not because it was broad, but because it was his own."
The currants, which had vaguely presented themselves at Santa Maura and Cephalonia, came now decisively to the front.
The impression of Santa Maura which remains in my own mind, however, does not concern itself with earthquakes, unless, indeed, one means moral ones.
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