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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 78 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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MEHADIA , a See also:

MARKET (Lat. mercatus, trade or place of trade)

market See also:

TOWN

town of See also:

Hungary, in the See also:

COUNTY (through Norm. Fr. comae, cf. O. Fr. cunte, conk', Mod. Fr. comae, from Lat. comitatus, cf. Ital. comitato, Prov. comtat; see COUNT)

county of Krassb-Szoreny, 287 M. S.E. of See also:

BUDAPEST

Budapest by See also:

RAIL

rail. Pop. (1900), 2492. The town is the site of the See also:

ancient See also:

ROMAN

Roman See also:

COLONY (Lat. colonia, from colonus, a cultivator)

colony Ad Mediam, near which passed the Roman road from the See also:

DANUBE (Ger. Donau, Hungarian Duna, Rumanian Dunarea, Lat. Danubius or Danuvius, and in the lower part of its course Ister)

Danube to See also:

DACIA

Dacia. It contains the ruins of a fortress, and other Roman remains. In its neighbourhood are the famous See also:

Hercules See also:

BATHS

baths (Hungarian, Herkulesfurdo). These are situated in a narrow rocky See also:

RAVINE

ravine in the valley of the Cserna, where there are 22 hot springs, of which nine are in use, the most powerful being the Hercules See also:

SPRING (from " to spring," " to leap or jump up," " burst out," O. Eng., springau, a common Teut. word, cf. Ger. springer, possibly allied to Gr. QnrFpxecOac, to move rapidly)

spring. The springs are all strongly impregnated withsalts of See also:

SULPHUR

sulphur, See also:

IODINE (symbol I, atomic weight '26.92)

iodine, See also:

BROMINE (symbol Br, atomic weight 79-96)

bromine and See also:

CHLORINE (symbol Cl, atomic weight 35`46 (0=16)

chlorine, and their See also:

AVERAGE

average temperature is 700 to 145° F. They were famous in the Roman See also:

period under the name of Thermae Herculis or Fontes Herculis. Their popularity is attested by numerous See also:

INSCRIPTIONS (from Lat. inscribere, to write upon)

inscriptions and See also:

RELICS (Lat, reliquiae, the equivalent of the English " remains " in the sense of a dead body)

relics. After the fall of the Roman See also:

EMPIRE

Empire they See also:

fell into disuse until 2735, but in See also:

MODERN

modern times they have been much frequented.

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