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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 964 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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CALAFAT , a See also:

TOWN

town of See also:

Rumania in the See also:

DEPARTMENT (Fr. departement, from departir, to separate into parts)

department of Doljiu; on the See also:

RIVER

river See also:

DANUBE (Ger. Donau, Hungarian Duna, Rumanian Dunarea, Lat. Danubius or Danuvius, and in the lower part of its course Ister)

Danube, opposite the Bulgarian fortress of See also:

VIDIN (formerly written WIDIN Or WIDDIN)

Vidin. Pop. (1900) 7113. Calafat is an important centre of the See also:

GRAIN (derived through the French from Lat. granum, seed, from an Aryan root meaning " to wear down," which also appears in the common Teutonic word " corn ")

grain See also:

trade, and is connected by a See also:

BRANCH (from the Fr. branche, late Lat. branca, an animal's paw)

branch See also:

LINE

line with the See also:

PRINCIPAL

principal Walachian See also:

RAILWAYS

railways, and by a See also:

steam See also:

ferry with Vidin. It was founded in the 14th See also:

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

century by Genoese colonists, who employed large See also:

numbers of workmen (Calfats) in repairing See also:

SHIPS

ships-which 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 gave its name to the See also:

PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place. In 1854 a See also:

RUSSIAN

Russian force was defeated at Calafat by the See also:

TURKS

Turks under Ahmed See also:

PASHA

Pasha, who surprised the enemy's See also:

CAMP (from Lat. campus, field)

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