DEMOTICA, or DIMOTICA  , a town of European Turkey, in the vilayet of Adrianople; on the Maritza valley branch of the Constantinople-Salonica railway, about 35 M . S. of Adrianople . Pop . (1go5) about 1o,000 . Demotica is built at the foot of a conical hill on the left bank of the river Kizildeli, near its junction with the Maritza . It was formerly the seat of a Greek arch-bishop, and besides the ancient citadel and palace on the summit of the hill contains several Greek churches, mosques and public baths . In the middle ages, when it was named Didymotichos, it was one of the principal marts of Thrace; in modern times it has regained something of its commercial importance, and exports pottery, linen, silk and grain . These goods are sent to Dedeagatch for shipment . Demotica was the birthplace of the 1 See also H . Usener in Nachrichten von der Konigl.Gssellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Gottingen, p . 188 (1892) ; J . H .

Lipsius, " 7ur Textcritik des Demosthenes " in Berich'te . der Konigl . Sachsischen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften (1893) with special reference to the papyrus finds at the end of the 19th century; E . Bethe, Demosthenis scriptorum corpus (1893) . Turkish sultan Bayezid I . (1347); after the battle of Poltava, Charles XII. of Sweden resided here from February 1713 to October 1714 .