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TURNU MAGURELE

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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 481 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TURNU MAGURELE , the See also:

capital of the See also:department of Teleorman, See also:Rumania; 22 M. N.E. of the confluence of the Olt and See also:Danube, at the See also:terminus of a See also:branch railway. Pop. (1900), 8668. A See also:ferry plies across the Danube to the Bulgarian fortress of See also:Nicopolis. Large quantities of See also:grain are shipped in lighters to See also:Braila. There are some vestiges of a See also:Roman See also:bridge across the Danube, built (c. A.D. 330) by See also:Constantine the See also:Great.

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