Larissa
or La·ri·sa
[luh-ris-uh; Greek lah-ree-sah]
- a city in E Thessaly, in E Greece.
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Contemporary Examples
And it is grieving for one of its congregation: Larissa Atanázio, who was 14.
Larissa MacFarquhar has an excellent, zillion-word piece in the current New Yorker about Kennedy.
Historical Examples
One year he is making a raid into Macedonia and Thessaly and plundering Larissa.
Theodoric the GothThomas Hodgkin
The identity of Larissa and Mespila has been much discussed.
A History of Art in Chalda & Assyria, v. 1Georges Perrot
In the neighborhood of Larissa the events of war were protracted and balanced.
The ambassadors returned to Larissa, to Hostilius, for by him they had been sent.
The History of Rome, Books 37 to the EndTitus Livius
A stone weighing seventy-two pounds fell at Larissa, in Macedonia.
Meteoric astronomy:Daniel Kirkwood