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MONASTIR, or BITOLIA

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 692 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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MONASTIR, or BITOLIA

MONASTIR, or BITOLIA , the second See also:

CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city of See also:

MACEDONIA

Macedonia, and the See also:

capital of the vilayet of Monastir in See also:

EUROPEAN

European See also:

TURKEY

Turkey, on the See also:

SALONICA, SALONIKA

Salonica-Monastir railway, 400 M. W. of See also:

Constantinople. Pop. (1905), about 6o,000. Monastir is situated at an See also:

ALTITUDE (Lat. altitudo, from altus, high)

altitude of 2019 ft. on the eastern versant of the richly wooded mountains which culminate in the Peristeri (83oo ft.) and sever See also:

Lake Prespa from the valley of the Kara-Su or Tzerna. A tributary of this See also:

RIVER

river, the Dragor or Drahor, traverses Monastir through a rocky channel which is rarely filled except after a thaw or heavy See also:

RAIN (O.E. regn; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Regen, Swed. and Dan. regn; it has been connected with Lat. rigare, to wet, Gr. 13pixeav)

rain. The city possesses many mosques, churches and See also:

SCHOOLS

schools, See also:

BATHS

baths and a military See also:

HOSPITAL (Lat. haspitalis, the adjective of hospes, host or guest)

hospital. It is the seat of numerous consulates, an See also:

AMERICAN

American See also:

PROTESTANT

Protestant See also:

MISSION

mission, and a Lazarist mission. The See also:

ANNUAL

annual value of its See also:

trade is about £400,000. See also:

GRAIN (derived through the French from Lat. granum, seed, from an Aryan root meaning " to wear down," which also appears in the common Teutonic word " corn ")

Grain, See also:

FLOUR

flour, See also:

CLOTH

cloth, hides and bones are exported, and a large amount of See also:

gold and See also:

SILVER

silver ornaments is manufactured, though this See also:

INDUSTRY (Lat. industria, from indu-, a form of the pre, position in, and either stare, to stand, or struere, to pile up)

industry tends to decline. The military advantages of its position at the See also:

MEETING (from " to meet," to come together, assemble, 0. Eng. metals ; cf. Du. moeten, Swed. mota, Goth. gamotjan, &c., derivatives of the Teut. word for a meeting, seen in O. Eng. Wit, moot, an assembly of the people; cf. witanagemot)

meeting-See also:

PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place of roads from Salonica, Durazzo, See also:

USKUB

Uskub, and See also:

Adrianople led the See also:

TURKS

Turks, about 182o, to make Monastir the headquarters of an See also:

army See also:

CORPS (pronounced as in French, from which it is taken, being a late spelling of tors, from Lat. corpus, a body; cf. " corpse ")

corps. Since then the See also:

general and commercial importance of the city has greatly increased, and in 1898 it was made the see of a Bulgarian See also:

The See also:

ancient See also:

DIOCESE (formed on Fr. diocese, in place of the Eng. form diocess—current until the 19th century—from Lat. dioecesis, med. Lat. variant diocesis, from Gr. Swucio•tc, " house-keeping," " administration," &miceas, " to keep house," " to govern ")

diocese of its See also:

Greek See also:

ARCHBISHOP (Lat. archiepiscopus, from Gr. apxceatorcoros)

archbishop is known as Pelagonia, from the old name of the Kara-Su See also:

PLAIN (O. Fr. plain, from Lat. plenum)

Plain. Monastir itself has been identified with the ancient See also:

HERACLEA

Heraclea Lyncestis on the Via Egnatia; its See also:

MODERN

modern name is derived from the monastery of Bukova (" the beeches ") near the See also:

SOUTHERN

southern outskirts of the city.

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