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after defeating the papal and 

 Spanish forces on April 11, 1512. 

 Pop. 74,000. See Dante. 



Ravensburg. Town of Wurt- 

 temberg, Germany. It stands on 

 the Sohussen, 11 m. N.N.E. of 

 Friedrichshafen. The town, which 

 consists of the old town and 

 modern suburbs, is encircled by 

 medieval fortifications. The most 

 important buildings are the 16th 

 century Rathaus and the Veits- 

 burg tower, which stands on the 

 site of the old castle of the Guelphs. 

 The industries include weaving and 

 dyeing, and there are manufactures 



Ravenna, Italy. Basilica of S. Vitale ; top, right, column 



of Gaston de Foix, erected in 1557 to commemorate his 



victory over the Spaniards in 1512 



of machinery, paper, stained glass, 

 and a trade in wine, wood, and 

 cattle. Ravensburg belonged to 

 the Hohenstaufens in 1180 and 

 became a free city in 1276. It 

 pas?ed to Wvirttemberg in 1810. 

 Pop. 15,600. 



Ravenscar. Seaside resort of 

 Yorkshire (N.R.), England. It is 

 10 m. from Scarborough, with a 

 station on the N.E. Rly. 



Ravenscourt Park. London 

 district and park, in the W. of the 

 bor. of Hammersmith. The park, 

 32 acres, from which the dist. 

 takes its name, was in 1887 ac- 

 quired by the local vestry and met. 

 board of works for 58,000, and 

 passed under the control of the 

 L.C.C. in 1889. Since 1887 about 

 one acre has been added. E. of the 

 ornamental lake is Ravenscourt 

 Mansion, an 18th century succes- 

 sor to the ancient manor house of 

 the manor of Paddenswick or 

 Palingswick, a gift of Edward III 

 to his favourite, Alice Perrers or de 

 Windsor (d. 1400), and commem- 

 orated in the name of the adjacent 

 Paddenswick Road. The park has 

 an avenue of elms leading from the 

 King Street entrance, a bowling- 

 green, tennis courts, and an old 

 English garden. See History and 

 Antiquities of Hammersmith, T. 

 Faulkner, 1839 ; Municipal Parks, 

 J. J. Sexby, 1898. .- < 



Ravenspur. 



Ancient seaport of 

 Yorkshire. It 

 stood near Spurn 

 Head, and in the 

 14th century was 

 a prosperous sea- 

 port. It was repre- 

 sented in Parlia- 

 ment, and here, in 

 1399, Henry IV 

 landed. Soon, 

 however, the sea 

 began to encroach, 

 and by 1500 the 

 place had disappeared. 



Ravens thorpe. Village of 

 Northamptonshire, England. It 

 is 8 m. from Daventry. The chief 

 building is the church of S. 

 Dionysius with some objects of 

 antiquarian interest. Another 

 Ravensthorpe is a village in 

 Yorkshire (W.R.). It is a manu- 

 facturing centre. Pop. 5,700. 



Ravenswood. Town in Ken- 

 nedy district, Queensland, Austra- 

 lia. It is the terminus of a short 

 branch line from the Townsville- 



Edgar Ravenswood and Lacy Ashton. 

 From the painting by Sir John Millais 



Clonrurry rly., is 78 m. from 

 Townsville, and the centre of one 

 of the smaller gold-fields, dating 

 from 1870. Pop. 2.000. 



Ravenswood. Drama in blank 

 verse by Herman Merivale. It was 

 produced Sept. 20, 1890, by Henry 

 Irving, at the Lyceum Theatre, 

 London. It was a fairly effective 

 stage version of The Bride of Lim- 

 mermoor, in which Henry Irving 

 played Edgar, Master of Ravens- 

 wood, and Ellen Terry Lucy Ashton. 



Ravenswood, EDGAR. Hero of 

 Scott's novel The Bride of Lam- 

 mermoor. The last of his line, his 

 inheritance being the old Tower of 

 Wolf's Crag and a legacy of re- 

 venge against the pillager of his 

 house, Sir William Ashton, he 

 saves the life of Sir William's 

 daughter Lucy, their betrothal and 

 a family reconciliation following. 

 Through Lady Ashton's treachery, 

 Lucy is induced to marry. Bucklaw, 

 loses her reason, and dies. In ful- 

 filment of an old prophecy Edgar 

 is swallowed up in the quicksands 

 of the Kelpie's Flow while on his 

 way to a duel with Lucy's brother, 

 Colonel Ashton. See Ashton, Lucy. 



Ravensworth. Village of 

 Durham, 3 m. from Newcastle-on- 

 Tyne. Here is Ravensworth Castle, 

 the seat of Lord Ravensworth. It 

 was built early in the 19th century 

 on the site of an earlier castle. 

 Lord Ravensworth, who takes his 

 title from this place, belongs to the 

 Liddell family. In 1642 ^Thomas 

 Liddell (d. 1650) was made a 

 baronet for supporting Charles I, 

 and in 1821 Thomas Henry, the 

 6th baronet, was made a baron. 

 Henry Thomas,, the 2nd baron, was 

 made an earl in 1874, but the earl- 

 dom became extinct when the 

 3rd earl died in 1904. 



Ravi. River of the Punjab, In- 

 dia. It rises near the Rotang Pass 

 in Kangra. and flows N.W. through 

 S. Chamba and, in general, S.W. to 

 join the Chenab, 35 m. N. of Mul- 

 tan. At Lahore there are fine 

 masonry bridges for the rly. and 

 the Grand Trunk Road. So much 

 water is taken for irrigation into 

 the Upper Bari Doab canal that in 

 Montgomery dist. the river bed is 

 dry for months at a time. Its 

 length is 450 m. 



Rawalpindi. Division and dist. 

 of the Punjab, India. The division 

 lies in the N.W. of the province ; it 

 is sparsely populated, mainly by 

 Mahomedans. Wheat is the chief 

 crop. The dist. lies W. of Kashmir 

 and W. and N. of the Jhelum. 

 Most of it is a high plateau, much 

 dissected by ravines. Forest covers 

 a considerable area. Wheat, pulses, 

 and millet are grown. Area, div., 

 21,391 sq. m. ; dist., 2,010 sq. m. 

 Pop.,div.,3,353,000 ; dist.,548,000. 



