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DOLNJA TUZLA, or D0N
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DOLNJA TUZLA, or D0N ,ff See also:SOLI, the See also:capital of the Dolnja Tuzla See also:district, in Bosnia, beautifully situated on the Jala or Julla, a small stream flowing into the SpreCa, which joins the Bosna at Doboj, 39 M. W.N.W.; and on a See also:branch railway from Doboj. Pop. (1895) 10,227; almost all, including a permanent See also:colony of See also:gipsies, being Moslems. Dolnja Tuzla is the seat of a district See also:court and an Orthodox See also:bishop; with several churches, many mosques, a See also:hospital, gymnasium and commercial school. Besides large See also:alkali See also:works, it has a vigorous See also:trade in See also:grain,_ livestock, See also:timber and See also:coal, from the surrounding hills, where there is a colony of Hungarian miners; while the See also:salt springs, owned by the See also:state both at Dolnja, or See also:Lower, and Gornja, or Upper Tuzla, 6 m. E., are without a See also:rival in the See also:Balkan See also:Peninsula. Dolnja Tuzla was called by the See also:Romans Ad Salinas. See also:Constantine Porphyrogenitus mentions it, in the loth See also:century, as Salenes; in other See also:medieval documents it appears as See also:Sou, Sow or Soli. Its See also:modern name is derived from the See also:Turkish tuz, " salt." In 1690 the Austrians routed the See also:Turks at Gornja Tuzla, and removed the Franciscan friars, with about 3000 other See also:Roman Catholics, into Slavonia. of natural See also:history, to which, after the See also:death of See also:Daubenton, he had been elected in See also:January z800. His course of lectures concluded, he revisited See also:Switzerland. Returning thence he reached the See also:residence of his See also:brother-in-See also:law at See also:Chateau-Neuf, in the See also:department of See also:Saone-et-See also:Loire, where he was seized with a See also:fever, to which in a few days he succumbed, on the 26th of See also:November 'Sol. See also:Dolomieu's See also:geological theories are remarkable for originality and boldness of conception. The materials constituting the primordial globe he held to have arranged themselves according to their specific gravities, so as to have constituted a fluid central See also:sphere, a solid crust See also:external to this, next a stratum of See also:water, and lastly the See also:atmosphere. Where water penetrated through the crust, solidification took See also:place in the underlying fluid See also:mass, which enlarging in consequence produced rifts in the superincumbent rocks. Water rushing down through the rifts became decomposed, and the resulting effervescence occasioned submarine volcanoes. The crust of the See also:earth he believed to be continually increasing in thickness, owing to the deposition of aqueous rocks, and to the See also:gradual solidification of the molten interior, so that the volcanic eruptions and other geological phenomena of former must have been of far greater magnitude and frequency than those of See also:recent times. See Lacepede, " Eloge historique de Dolomieu," in Memoires de la classe See also:des sciences de l'Institut (1806); See also:Thomson, in See also:Annals of See also:Philosophy, vol. xii. p. 161 (1808). Additional information and CommentsThere are no comments yet for this article.
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