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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 711 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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BUCCARI (Serbo-Croatian Bakar)

BUCCARI (Serbo-Croatian Bakar) , a royal See also:

FREE

free See also:

TOWN

town of Croatia-Slavonia, See also:

Hungary; situated in the See also:

COUNTY (through Norm. Fr. comae, cf. O. Fr. cunte, conk', Mod. Fr. comae, from Lat. comitatus, cf. Ital. comitato, Prov. comtat; see COUNT)

county of Modrus"-See also:

FIUME (Slay. Rjeka, Rieka or Reka, Ger. St Veit am Flaum)

Fiume, 7 M. S.E. of Fiume, on a small See also:

BAY

bay of the Adriatic See also:

Sea. Pop. (1900) 1870. The Hungarian See also:

state railway from Zakany and See also:

AGRAM (Hungarian Zagreb, Croatian Zagreb)

Agram terminates 21 M. from Buccari. The See also:

HARBOUR (from M.E. hereberge, here, an army; cf. Ger. Heer and -beorg, protection or shelter. Other early forms in English were herberwe and haiborow, as seen in various place names, such as Market Harborough.. The French auberge, an inn, derived through

harbour, though sometimes dangerous to approach, affords See also:

GOOD, JOHN MASON (1764-1827)

good anchorage to small vessels. Owing to competition from Fiume, Buccari lost the greater See also:

PART

part of its See also:

trade during the 19th See also:

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century. The See also:

STAPLE

staple See also:

INDUSTRY (Lat. industria, from indu-, a form of the pre, position in, and either stare, to stand, or struere, to pile up)

industry is boatbuilding, and there is an active See also:

COASTING

coasting trade in See also:

fish, See also:

WINE (Lat. vinum, Gr. oivos)

wine, See also:

wood and See also:

COAL

coal. The See also:

TUNNY (Thunnus thynnus)

tunny-See also:

FISHERY (LAW OF)

fishery is of some importance. In the neighbourhood of the town is the old See also:

castle of Buccarica, and farther See also:

south the flourishing little See also:

PORT

port of See also:

PORTO

Porto Re or Kraljevica.

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