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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 764 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BERAT (Slay. Byelgorod; Turk. Arnaut-Beligradi)  , the capital of a sanjak in the vilayet of Iannina,
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southern
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Albania,
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Turkey; on the
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river Ergene, Ergeni or Osum, a
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left-hand tributary of the Semeni . Pop . (1900) about 15,00o . Berat is a fortified
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town, situated in a fertile valley, which produces wine, olive-oil, fruit and grain . It is the see of an Orthodox metropolitan, and the inhabitants, of whom two-thirds are Albanian and the remainder principally Greek, are equally divided in religion between
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Christianity and
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Islam .

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