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VRANYA, or VRANYE

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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 220 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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VRANYA, or VRANYE , the most southerly See also:town of the See also:kingdom of See also:Servia, 72 M. from the Macedonian frontier, on a slope descending from See also:Mount Placevitza to the See also:plain of the Upper Morava, in a picturesque and fertile See also:country. Pop. (1900) 11,921. In the. Russo-See also:Turkish See also:War of 1877 it was captured by the Servian See also:army from the See also:Turks, and subsequently was incorporated in the kingdom. It is the See also:capital of a See also:department of the same name, and is an important station on the railway from See also:Nish to See also:Salonica, with a See also:custom See also:house, principally for merchandise imported into Servia via Salonica. Its inhabitants are employed chiefly in the cultivation of See also:flax and See also:hemp, and in the making of See also:ropes. There is a much frequented summer resort 42 M. E., called Vranyska Banya, with See also:baths of hot sulphurous See also:mineral See also:water.

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