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SISTOVA (Bulg. Svishtov)

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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 161 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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SISTOVA (Bulg. Svishtov)

SISTOVA (Bulg. Svishtov) , the See also:

capital of the See also:

DEPARTMENT (Fr. departement, from departir, to separate into parts)

department of Sistova, See also:

Bulgaria, on the right See also:

BANK

bank of the See also:

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

Danube, 40 M. W. 25 of See also:

RUSTCHUK (Bulg. Russe); the capital of the department of Rustchuk, Bulgaria, on the right bank of the Danube, where it receives the E. Lem. Pop. (r906) 33

Rustchuk. Pop. (1906), 13,408. Despite the lack of railway communication, and the See also:

MIGRATION

migration of the See also:

TURKISH

Turkish inhabitants after the Russo-Turkish See also:

War (1877-1878), Sistova is an important commercial centre, exporting See also:

WINE (Lat. vinum, Gr. oivos)

wine and 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 and importing See also:

PETROLEUM (Lat. Petra, rock, and oleuin, oil)

petroleum. Sistova is identified with the See also:

ROMAN

Roman See also:

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

colony Novae mentioned by See also:

PTOLEMY (CLAUDIUS PTOLEMAEUS)

Ptolemy. The exact site appears to have been Staklen, to the See also:

west of the See also:

PRESENT

present See also:

TOWN

town, which has gradually moved See also:

east-See also:

ward since the 16th See also:

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century, when it was almost destroyed in the Turkish See also:

WARS

wars. It was at Sistova that the See also:

peace of 1790 was signed, by which the See also:

AUSTRIAN

Austrian-Turkish boundary was determined. The town was burned in 1810 by the Russians; but after 18zo it began to revive, and the introduction of See also:

steam See also:

TRAFFIC

traffic on the See also:

LOWER

lower Danube (1835) restored its prosperity. The Walachian town of See also:

Alexandria was founded by fugitives from Sistova in 1878.

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