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BUCCARI (Serbo-Croatian Bakar)

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 711 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BUCCARI (Serbo-Croatian Bakar)  , a royal
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town of Croatia-Slavonia, Hungary; situated in the county of Modrus"-Fiume, 7 M . S.E. of Fiume, on a small
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bay of the Adriatic Sea . Pop . (1900) 1870 . The Hungarian state railway from Zakany and Agram terminates 21 M. from Buccari . The harbour, though sometimes dangerous to approach, affords good anchorage to small vessels . Owing to competition from Fiume, Buccari lost the greater
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part of its trade during the 19th century . The
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staple industry is boatbuilding, and there is an active
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coasting trade in fish, wine, wood and
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coal . The tunny-fishery is of some importance . In the neighbourhood of the town is the old castle of Buccarica, and farther south the flourishing little
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port of
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Porto Re or Kraljevica .

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