CHORLU  , TcxoRLAU or SCHORLAU, a

town of European Turkey, in the vilayet of Adrianople; on the left bank of the Chorlu, a small left-hand tributary of the Ergene, 20 M . N.E. of Rodosto . Pop . (1905) about 22,000, of whom one-half are Greeks, one-third Turks, and the remainder Armenians and Jews . Chorlu has a station on the Constantinople-Adrianople branch of the Oriental railways . It manufactures woollen cloth (shayak) and native carpets, and exports cereals, oil-cloth, carpets, cattle, poultry, fresh meat, game, fruits, wine, alcohol, hides and bones .