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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 121 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BACAU , the See also:

capital of the See also:department of Bacau, See also:Rumania; situated among the foothills of the Carpathian Mountains, and on the See also:river Bistritza, which enters the river Sereth 5 M. S. Pop. (1900) 16,187, including 7850 See also:Jews. Although of See also:modern growth, Bacau is one of the See also:chief commercial centres in See also:Moldavia, possessing many large See also:timber yards. It is on the See also:main railway from Czernovitz, in See also:Bukovina, to See also:Galatz; and on two See also:branch lines, one of which enters Transylvania through the Ghimesh Pass, while both give See also:access to the See also:salt mines, See also:petroleum See also:wells and forests of the Carpathians.

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