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

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