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BACAU

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 121 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BACAU  , the

capital of the department of Bacau, Rumania; situated among the foothills of the Carpathian Mountains, and on the
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river Bistritza, which enters the river Sereth 5 M . S . Pop . (1900) 16,187, including 7850 Jews . Although of
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modern growth, Bacau is one of the chief commercial centres in
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Moldavia, possessing many large
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timber yards . It is on the main railway from Czernovitz, in
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Bukovina, to Galatz; and on two branch lines, one of which enters Transylvania through the Ghimesh Pass, while both give access to the salt mines, petroleum wells and forests of the Carpathians .

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