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KIRKINTILLOCH
, a municipal and See also:police See also:burgh of See also:Dumbartonshire, See also:Scotland
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Pop
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(1901),1o,680
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It is situated 8 m
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N.E. of See also:Glasgow, by the See also:North See also:British railway, a portion of the See also:parish extending into See also:Lanarkshire
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It lies on the Forth & See also:Clyde See also:canal, and the See also:Kelvin—from which See also:Lord Kelvin, the distinguished scientist, took the See also:title of his See also:barony—flows past the See also:town,
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27where it receives from the north the Glazert and from the See also:south the Luggie, commemorated by See also:David See also: LENZIE, a suburb, a mile to the south of the old town, contains the imposing towered edifice in the Elizabethan See also:style which houses the Barony asylum . David Gray, the poet, was See also:born at Merkland, near by, and is buried in Kirkintilloch See also:churchyard, where a See also:monument was erected to his memory in 1865 . KIRK-KILISSEH (KIRK-KILISSE or KIRK-KILISSIA), a town of See also:European See also:Turkey, in the vilayet of See also:Adrianople, 35 M . E. of Adrianople . Pop . (1905), about 16,000, of whom about See also:half are Greeks, and the See also:remainder Bulgarians, See also:Turks and See also:Jews . Kirk-Kilisseh is built near the headwaters of several small tributaries of the See also:river Ergene, and on the western slope of the Istranja Dagh . It owes its See also:chief importance to its position at the See also:southern outlet of the Fakhi See also:defile over these mountains, through which passes the shortest road from See also:Shumla to See also:Constantinople . The name Kirk-Kilisseh signifies " four churches," and the town possesses many mosques and See also:Greek churches . It has an important See also:trade with Constantinople in See also:butter and See also:cheese, and also exports See also:wine, See also:brandy, cereals and See also:tobacco . |
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