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PETRIOU (also called Cha-chang-sao)

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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 316 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PETRIOU (also called Cha-chang-sao)  , a See also:town and See also:port of See also:Siam, in the See also:division of Pachim, about 45 M . E. of See also:Bangkok . It is the centre of that See also:part of See also:southern Siam which is watered by the See also:Bang Pakong See also:River . It is built on See also:low-lying, swampy ground, about ro m. from the mouth of the above river . The See also:population is about io,000, mixed Siamese and See also:Chinese, the latter slightly predominating . See also:Rice-See also:mills give employment to a large number of indentured Chinese coolies, but the inhabitants are chiefly engaged in See also:agriculture . A railway connecting with Bangkok was opened in the See also:spring of 1908 .

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