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DEMOTICA, or DIMOTICA

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 16 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DEMOTICA, or DIMOTICA , a See also:town of See also:European See also:Turkey, in the vilayet of See also:Adrianople; on the Maritza valley See also:branch of the See also:Constantinople-See also:Salonica railway, about 35 M. S. of Adrianople. Pop. (1go5) about 1o,000. Demotica is built at the See also:foot of a conical See also:hill on the See also:left See also:bank of the See also:river Kizildeli, near its junction with the Maritza. It was formerly the seat of a See also:Greek See also:arch-See also:bishop, and besides the See also:ancient citadel and See also:palace on the See also:summit of the hill contains several Greek churches, mosques and public See also:baths. In the See also:middle ages, when it was named Didymotichos, it was one of the See also:principal marts of See also:Thrace; in See also:modern times it has regained something of its commercial importance, and exports pottery, See also:linen, See also:silk and See also:grain. These goods are sent to See also:Dedeagatch for shipment. Demotica was the birthplace of the 1 See also H. Usener in Nachrichten von der Konigl.Gssellschaft der Wissenschaften zu See also:Gottingen, p. 188 (1892) ; J. H.

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Lipsius, " 7ur Textcritik See also:des See also:Demosthenes " in Berich'te . der Konigl. Sachsischen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften (1893) with See also:special reference to the See also:papyrus finds at the end of the 19th See also:century; E. Bethe, Demosthenis scriptorum corpus (1893). See also:Turkish See also:sultan Bayezid I. (1347); after the See also:battle of See also:Poltava, See also:Charles XII. of See also:Sweden resided here from See also:February 1713 to See also:October 1714.

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