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TECUCI (Tecuciu)

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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 499 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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TECUCI (Tecuciu)

TECUCI (Tecuciu) , the See also:

capital of the Tecuci See also:

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

department of See also:

Rumania, picturesquely situated among wooded hills, on the right See also:

BANK

bank of the See also:

RIVER

river See also:

BERLAD

Berlad, and at the junction of See also:

RAILWAYS

railways from See also:

BACAU

Bacau, Berlad and See also:

GALATZ (Galalii)

Galatz. Pop. (1900) 13,401. Tecuci has a large transit See also:

trade in 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:

TIMBER

timber, See also:

CATTLE (Norman Fr. catel, from Late Lat. capitale, wealth or property, a word applied in the feudal system to movable property and particularly to live stock, and surviving in its wider meaning as " chattel " or " chattle ")

cattle and horses, on their way from See also:

NORTHERN

northern and eastern See also:

MOLDAVIA

Moldavia to the Danubian ports. The neighbourhood of Tecuci was the See also:

SCENE (Fr. scene, Lat. scaena, Gr. oflvil, a tent or booth, a stage or scene)

scene of a fierce See also:

BATTLE

battle in 1476 between See also:

Stephen the See also:

GREAT

Great and the See also:

TURKS

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