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ISHTIB, or ISTIB (anc. Astibon, Slay....

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Originally appearing in Volume V14, Page 871 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ISHTIB, or ISTIB (anc. Astibon, Slay. Shtipliye or Shtip)  , a
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town of
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Macedonia,
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European
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Turkey, in the vilayet of
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Kossovo; 45 M . E.S.E. of
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Uskub . Pop . (1905) about Io,000 . Ishtib is built on a hill at the confluence of the small
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river Ishtib with the Bregalnitza, a tributary of the Vardar . It has a thriving agricultural trade, and possesses several
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fine mosques, a number of fountains and a large bazaar . A hill on the north-west is crowned by the ruins of an old castle .

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