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BALIKISRI (Balukiser)

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 257 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BALIKISRI (Balukiser)  , a
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town of
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Asia Minor, capital of the Karasi sanjak in the vilayet of Brusa, altitude 575 ft., situated on rising ground above a fertile plain which drains to the Sea of Marmora . Pop . 20,000 (Moslems, 15,000; Christians, 5000) . It is a centre of trade in opium,
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silk and cereals, communicating by
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carriage roads with Panderma . The sanjak is rich in
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mineral
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wealth;
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silver mines are worked at Balia and
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boracite mines at Susurlu . At or near Balikisri was the
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Roman town of Hudrianutherae, founded, as its name commemorates, by the emperor Hadrian .

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