See also:

• CRAIOVA, or KRAJOVA

CRAIOVA, or KRAJOVA  , the See also:

• CAPITAL (i.e. capital stock or fund)
• CAPITAL (Lat. caput, head)

capital of the See also:

• DEPARTMENT (Fr. departement, from departir, to separate into parts)

department of Doljiu, See also:

• RUMANIA
• RUMANIA, or ROUMANIA [Romdnia]

Rumania, situated near the See also:

• LEFT

left See also:

• BANK

bank of the See also:

• RIVER

river Jiu, and on the See also:

• MAIN (from the Aryan root which appears in " may " and " might," and Lat. magnus, great)
• MAIN (Lat. Moenus)

main Walachian railway from Verciorova to See also:

• BUCHAREST (Bucuresci)

Bucharest . Pop . (1900) 45,438 . A See also:

• BRANCH (from the Fr. branche, late Lat. branca, an animal's paw)

branch railway to See also:

• CALAFAT

Calafat facilitates the export See also:

• TRADE (O. Eng. trod, footstep, from tredan, to tread; in M. Eng. the forms teed, trod and trade appear, the last in the sense of a beaten track)
• TRADE, BOARD OF

trade with See also:

• BULGARIA
• BULGARIA, EASTERN

Bulgaria . See also:

• CRAIOVA, or KRAJOVA

Craiova is the See also:

• CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief commercial See also:

• TOWN

town See also:

• WEST
• WEST, BENJAMIN (1738-1820)
• WEST, NICHOLAS (1461-1533)

west of Bucharest; the surrounding uplands are very See also:

• RICH, BARNABE (c. 1540-1617)
• RICH, CLAUDIUS JAMES (1787-1821)
• RICH, JOHN (1692-1761)
• RICH, PENELOPE, LADY (c. 1562–1607)
• RICH, RICHARD, 1ST BARON RICH (1490?-1567)

rich in See also:

• GRAIN (derived through the French from Lat. granum, seed, from an Aryan root meaning " to wear down," which also appears in the common Teutonic word " corn ")

grain, pasturage and See also:

• VEGETABLE

vegetable products, and contain extensive forests . The town has rope and See also:

• CARRIAGE

carriage factories, and See also:

• CLOSE
• CLOSE (from Lat. clausum, shut)
• CLOSE, MAXWELL HENRY (1822-1903)

close by is a large tannery, worked by convict labour, and supplying the See also:

• ARMY
• ARMY (from Fr. armee, Lat. armata)

army . The See also:

• PRINCIPAL

principal trade is in See also:

• CATTLE (Norman Fr. catel, from Late Lat. capitale, wealth or property, a word applied in the feudal system to movable property and particularly to live stock, and surviving in its wider meaning as " chattel " or " chattle ")

cattle, cereals, See also:

• FISH (O. Eng. fist, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dutch visch, Ger. Fisch, Goth. fisks, cognate with the Lat. piscis)
• FISH, HAMILTON (1808-1893)

fish, See also:

• LINEN

linen, pottery, See also:

• GLUE (from the O. Fr. glu, bird-lime, from the Late Lat. gluten, glus, glue)

glue and See also:

• LEATHER (a word which appears in all Teutonic languages; cf. Ger. Leder, Dutch leer or leder, Swed. leder, and in such Celtic forms as Welsh llader)
• LEATHER, ARTIFICIAL

leather . In the town, which is the See also:

• HEAD (in 0. Eng. heafad; the word is common to Teutonic languages; cf. Dutch hoofd, Ger. Haupt, generally taken to be in origin connected with Lat. caput, Gr. KerbOvi7)
• HEAD, SIR EDMUND WALKER, BART
• HEAD, SIR FRANCIS BOND, BART

head-quarters of the First Army See also:

• CORPS (pronounced as in French, from which it is taken, being a late spelling of tors, from Lat. corpus, a body; cf. " corpse ")

Corps, there are military and commercial See also:

• ACADEMIES

academies, an See also:

• APPEAL

appeal See also:

• COURT
• COURT (from the O. Fr. court, Late Lat. cortis, curtis, a popular form of class. Lat. cohors, gen. cohortis; the mod. Fr. form tour is due to the influence of the Lat. curia, the word used in medieval documents to translate " court " in the feudal sense)
• COURT, ANTOINE (1696-176o)

court and a chamber of See also:

• COMMERCE
• COMMERCE (Lat. commercium, from, cum, together, and rnerx, merchandise)

commerce, besides many churches, See also:

• GREEK
• GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

Greek Orthodox, See also:

• ROMAN

Roman See also:

• CATHOLIC (Gr. KcaBoXuK6s, general, universal)

Catholic, and See also:

• PROTESTANT

Protestant, with synagogues for the See also:

• JEWS
• JEWS (Heb. Y8hudi, man of Judah; Gr. 'Iovbaiot; Lat. Judaei)

Jews . Craiova, which occupied the site of the Roman Castra Nova, was formerly the capital of Little See also:

• WALACHIA, or WALLAHHIA

Walachia . Its See also:

• ANCIENT
• ANCIENT (also spelt ANTIENT; derived, through the Fr. ancien, old, from the late Lat. antianum, from ante, before)

ancient bans or military See also:

• GOVERNORS

governors were, next to the princes, the chief dignitaries of Walachia, and the See also:

• DISTRICT

district is still styled the See also:

• BANAT (Hungarian Bansdg)

banat of Craiova . Among the holders of this See also:

• OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")

office were See also:

• MICHAEL
• MICHAEL (1596-1645)
• MICHAEL (Hebrew Sn,q, " Who is like God? ")

Michael the Brave (1593–1601), and several members of the celebrated See also:

• BASSARAB

Bassarab See also:

• FAMILY

family (q.v.) . The bans had the right of coining See also:

• MONEY

money stamped with their own See also:

• EFFIGIES, MONUMENTAL

effigies, and hence arose the name of bani (centimes) .

The Rumanian See also:

• FRANC

franc, or leu (" See also:

• LION
• LION (Lat, leo, leonis; Gr. Mew)

lion "), so called from the See also:

• IMAGE (Lat. imago, perhaps from the same root as imitari, copy, imitate)

image'it See also:

• BORE

bore, came likewise from Craiova . In 1397 Craiova was the See also:

• SCENE (Fr. scene, Lat. scaena, Gr. oflvil, a tent or booth, a stage or scene)

scene of a victory won by See also:

• PRINCE
• PRINCE (Lat. princeps, from primus capio, " I am the first to take "; Ital. principe, Fr. prince)

Prince Mircea over Bayezid I. See also:

• SULTAN (an Arabic word meaning " victorious " or " a ruler," sultat, dominion)

sultan of the See also:

• TURKS

Turks; and in See also:

• OCTOBER

October 1853, of an engagement between Turks and Russians .