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BARSI , a See also:town of See also:British See also:India, in the See also:Sholapur See also:district of Bombay, lying within a See also:tract entirely surrounded by the See also:Nizam's dominions. Pop. (1901) 24,242. Barsi is a flourishing centre of See also:trade, exporting to Bombay large quantities of See also:cotton and oil-seeds. It has several factories for ginning and pressing cotton—some on a large See also:scale. It is connected with the See also:main See also:line of the See also:Great See also:Indian See also:Peninsula railway by a See also:light railway.
See also:BAR-SUR-See also:AUBE, a town of See also:north-eastern See also:France, See also:capital of an See also:arrondissement in the See also:department of Aube, 34 M. E. by S. of See also:Troyes on the main line of the Eastern railway between that town and See also:Belfort. Pop. (1906) 4276. Bar-sur-Aube lies at the See also:foot of hills on the right See also:bank of the Aube at its confluence with the See also:Bresse. A circle of boulevards occupies the site of the old ramparts, fragments of which still remain.
Of the ecclesiastical buildings, the most noteworthy are St See also:Pierre and St Maclou, both dating mainly from the end of the 12th See also:century. St Pierre has wooden exterior galleries and two See also:fine See also:Gothic porches. The See also:sacristy of St Maclou is conjectured to have formed the See also:chapel of the See also:castle of the See also:counts of Bar, of which the square See also:tower flanking the north See also:side of the See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church formed the entrance. The town is the seat of a. sub-See also:prefect, and the public institutions include a tribunal of first instance and a communal See also:college. See also:Flour-milling, tanning, and the manufacture of See also:brandy, See also:hosiery and agricultural implements are carried on. The See also:wine of the district is much esteemed. '
Traces of a See also:Roman See also:settlement have been found on hills to the See also:south of the town. Under the domination of the counts of See also:Champagne, it became the See also:scene of important fairs which did not cease till 1648. In 1814 several actions between the See also:French and the See also:army of the See also:allies took See also:place at Bar-sur-Aube (see See also:NAPOLEONIC See also:WARS).
BAR-SUR-See also:SEINE, a town of eastern France, capital of an arrondissement in the department of Aube, on the See also:left bank of the Seine. 20 m. S.E. of Troyes by the Eastern railway.
Pop. (1906) 2812. The town lies at the foot of a wooded See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
hill on which stand the ruins of the castle of the counts of Bar, and is composed chiefly of one See also:long See also:street, bordered in places by houses of the 16th century: Its See also:principal See also:building is the church of St See also:Etienne, of the 16th and 17th centuries, which contains some fine stained See also:glass. Bar-sur-Seine has a sub-prefecture and a tribunal of first instance. Tanning, See also:dyeing, flour-milling, brandy-distilling and the manufacture of glass are among the See also:industries. The See also:Canal de la Haute-Seine begins at this point. The town was devastated in 1359 by the See also:English, when, according to See also:Froissart, no fewer than 900 mansions were burnt. Afterwards it suffered greatly in the religious wars of the 16th century.
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