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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 833 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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KIRKINTILLOCH , a municipal and See also:

police See also:burgh of See also:Dumbartonshire, See also:Scotland. Pop. (1901),1o,680. It is situated 8 m. N.E. of See also:Glasgow, by the See also:North See also:British railway, a portion of the See also:parish extending into See also:Lanarkshire. It lies on the Forth & See also:Clyde See also:canal, and the See also:Kelvin—from which See also:Lord Kelvin, the distinguished scientist, took the See also:title of his See also:barony—flows past the See also:town, XV. 27where it receives from the north the Glazert and from the See also:south the Luggie, commemorated by See also:David See also:Gray. The See also:Wall of See also:Antoninus ran through the site of the town, the Gaelic name of which (Caer, a fort, not See also:Kirk, a See also:church) means " the fort at the end of the See also:ridge." The town became a burgh of barony under the Comyns in 1170. The cruciform parish church with See also:crow-stepped gables See also:dates from 1644. The public buildings include the town-See also:hall, with a See also:clock See also:tower, the See also:temperance hall, a convalescent See also:home, the Broomhill home for incurables (largely due to See also:Miss See also:Beatrice Clugston, to whom a memorial was erected in 1891), and the Westermains See also:asylum. In 1898 the burgh acquired as a private See also:park the See also:Peel, containing traces of the See also:Roman Wall, a fort, and the See also:foundation of See also:Comyn's See also:Castle. The leading See also:industries are chemical manufactures, See also:iron-See also:founding, See also:muslin-See also:weaving, See also:coal See also:mining and See also:timber sawing.

LENZIE, a suburb, a mile to the south of the old town, contains the imposing towered edifice in the Elizabethan See also:

style which houses the Barony asylum. David Gray, the poet, was See also:born at Merkland, near by, and is buried in Kirkintilloch See also:churchyard, where a See also:monument was erected to his memory in 1865. KIRK-KILISSEH (KIRK-KILISSE or KIRK-KILISSIA), a town of See also:European See also:Turkey, in the vilayet of See also:Adrianople, 35 M. E. of Adrianople. Pop. (1905), about 16,000, of whom about See also:half are Greeks, and the See also:remainder Bulgarians, See also:Turks and See also:Jews. Kirk-Kilisseh is built near the headwaters of several small tributaries of the See also:river Ergene, and on the western slope of the Istranja Dagh. It owes its See also:chief importance to its position at the See also:southern outlet of the Fakhi See also:defile over these mountains, through which passes the shortest road from See also:Shumla to See also:Constantinople. The name Kirk-Kilisseh signifies " four churches," and the town possesses many mosques and See also:Greek churches. It has an important See also:trade with Constantinople in See also:butter and See also:cheese, and also exports See also:wine, See also:brandy, cereals and See also:tobacco.

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