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KAVALA, or CAVALLA

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 701 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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KAVALA, or CAVALLA , a walled See also:town and seaport of See also:European See also:Turkey in the vilayet of See also:Salonica, on the See also:Bay of Kavala, an inlet of the See also:Aegean See also:Sea. Pop. (1905), about 5000. Kavala is built on a promontory stretching See also:south into the bay, and opposite the See also:island of See also:Thasos. There is a See also:harbour on each See also:side of the promontory. The See also:resident See also:population is increased in summer by an influx of peasantry, of whom during the See also:season 5000 to 6000 are employed in curing See also:tobacco and preparing it for export. The finest See also:Turkish tobacco is grown in the See also:district, and shipped to all parts of See also:Europe and See also:America, to the See also:annual value of about 1,250,000. Mehemet See also:Ali was See also:born here in 1769, and founded a Turkish school which still exists. His birthplace, an unpretentious little See also:house in one of the tortuous older streets, can be distinguished by the tablet which the municipal authorities have affixed to its front See also:wall. Numerous See also:Roman remains have been found in the neighbourhood, of which the See also:chief is the large See also:aqueduct on two tiers of See also:arches which still serves to See also:supply the town and dilapidated citadel with See also:water from See also:Mount Pangeus. Kavala has been identified with Neapolis, at which St See also:Paul landed on his way from See also:Samothrace to See also:Philippi (Acts xvi. u). Neapolis was the See also:port of Philippi, as Kavala now is of Seres; in the bay on which it stands the See also:fleet of See also:Brutus and See also:Cassius was stationed during the See also:battle of Philippi.

Some authorities identify Neapolis with Datum (aa-ron), mentioned by See also:

Herodotus as famous for its See also:gold mines.

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