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See also:SERFS, SERROS Or SIROS, See also:chief See also:town of a sanjak in the vilayet of See also:Salonica, See also:European See also:Turkey, on See also:Lake Takhino, a navigable expansion of the See also:river Karasu or Struma (See also:ancient Strymon), 43 M. by See also:rail N.E. of Salonica. Pop. (1905) about 30,000, of whom about See also:half are Bulgarians (one-third of them being Mussulmans), nearly one-See also:fourth Greeks, about one-seventh See also:Turks and the See also:remainder See also:Jews. Seres is built in a See also:district so fertile as to See also:bear among the Turks the name of Altin Ovassi, or See also:Golden See also:Plain, and so thickly studded with villages as to appear, when seen from the outliers of Rhodope on the See also:north, like a See also:great See also:city with extensive gardens. It is the seat of a See also:Greek See also:archbishop and See also:patriarch. It consists of the old town, Varosh, situated at the See also:foot and on the slope of the See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
hill crowned by the old See also:castle, and of the new town built in the European See also:fashion on the plain, and forming the commercial centre. The See also:principal buildings are the Greek archiepiscopal See also:palace, the Greek See also:cathedral, restored since the great See also:fire of 1879, by which it was robbed of its magnificent mosaics and woodwork, the Greek gymnasium and See also:hospital (the former built of See also:marble), the richly endowed Eski Jami See also:mosque, and the ruins of the once no less flourishing Ahmed See also:Pasha or Hagia See also:Sophia mosque, whose revenues were formerly derived from the See also:Crimea. On a hill above the town are the ruins of a fortress described in a Greek inscription as a " See also:tower built by See also:Helen in the mountainous region. " Seres is the headquarters of the See also:Turkish See also:wool See also:trade, and has also manufactures of See also:cloth and carpets. There is a large trade in See also:rice and cereals, and the other exports include See also:tobacco and hides.
Seres is the ancient Seris, Sirae or Sirrhae, mentioned by See also:Herodotus in connexion with See also:Xerxes's See also:retreat, and by See also:Livy as the See also:place where See also:Aemilius See also:Paulus received a deputation from See also:Perseus. In the 14tr1 See also:century, when See also:Stephen Dushan of See also:Servia assumed the See also:title See also:emperor of Servia, he See also:chose Sirrhae as his See also:capital; and it remained in the hands of the Servians till its See also:capture by See also:Sultan See also:Murad II. (1421-145I).
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