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See also: town of See also: Asia Minor, capital of the Karasi sanjak in the vilayet of See also: Brusa, altitude 575 ft., situated on rising ground above a fertile plain which drains to the See also: Sea of Marmora
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Pop
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20,000 (Moslems, 15,000; Christians, 5000)
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It is a centre of See also: trade in opium, See also: silk and cereals, communicating by See also: carriage roads with See also: Panderma
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The sanjak is See also: rich in See also: mineral See also: wealth; See also: silver mines are worked at Balia and See also: boracite mines at Susurlu
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At or near See also: Balikisri was the See also: Roman town of Hudrianutherae, founded, as its name commemorates, by the emperor See also: Hadrian
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