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DEDEAGATCH , a seaport of See also:European See also:Turkey, in the vilayet of See also:Adrianople, so m. N.W. of the Maritza See also:estuary, on the Gulf of See also:Enos, an inlet of the See also:Aegean See also:Sea. Pop, (1905) 4b9ut 3000, Canonical See also:Influence. mostly Greeks. Until 187r Dedeagatch was a See also:mere cluster of fishermen's huts. A new See also:town then began to See also:spring up, settlers being attracted by the prospect of opening up a See also:trade in the products of a vast See also:forest of valonia oaks which See also:grew near. In 1873 it was made the See also:chief town of a Kaza, to which it gave its name, and a Kaimakam was appointed to it. In 1884 it was raised in administrative See also:rank from a Kaza to a Sanjak, and the See also:governor became a Mutessarif. In 1889 the See also:Greek archbishopric of Enos was transferred to Dedeagatch. On the opening, See also:early in 1896, of the See also:Constantinople-See also:Salonica railway, which has a station here, a large proportion of the extensive transit trade which Enos, situated at the mouth of the Maritza, had acquired, was immediately diverted to Dedeagatch, and an era of unprecedented prosperity began; but when the railway connecting See also:Burgas on the See also:Black Sea with the interior was opened, in 1898, Dedeagatch lost all it had won from Enos. Owing to the lack of shelter in its open roadstead, the See also:port has not become the See also:great commercial centre which its position otherwise qualifies it to be. It is, however, one of the chief outlets for the See also:grain trade of the Adrianople, See also:Demotica and See also:Xanthi districts. The valonia trade has also steadily See also:developed, and is supplemented by the export of See also:timber, See also:tobacco and almonds. In 1871, while digging out the See also:foundations of their houses, the settlers found many See also:ancient tombs. Probably these are See also:relics, not of the See also:necropolis of the ancient See also:Zone, but of a monastic community of Dervishes, of the Dede See also:sect, which was established here in the 15th See also:century, shortly after the See also:Turkish See also:conquest, and gave to the See also:place its name. Additional information and CommentsThere are no comments yet for this article.
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