See also:

• SISTOVA (Bulg. Svishtov)

SISTOVA (Bulg. Svishtov)  , 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 See also:

• SISTOVA (Bulg. Svishtov)

Sistova, See also:

• BULGARIA
• BULGARIA, EASTERN

Bulgaria, on the right See also:

• BANK

bank of the See also:

• DANUBE (Ger. Donau, Hungarian Duna, Rumanian Dunarea, Lat. Danubius or Danuvius, and in the lower part of its course Ister)

Danube, 40 M . W . 25 of See also:

• RUSTCHUK (Bulg. Russe); the capital of the department of Rustchuk, Bulgaria, on the right bank of the Danube, where it receives the E. Lem. Pop. (r906) 33

Rustchuk . Pop . (1906), 13,408 . Despite the lack of railway communication, and the See also:

• MIGRATION

migration of the See also:

• TURKISH

Turkish inhabitants after the Russo-Turkish See also:

• WAR
• WAR (O. Eng. werre, Fr. guerre, of Teutonic origin; cf. O.H.G. werran, to confound)

War (1877-1878), Sistova is an important commercial centre, exporting See also:

• WINE (Lat. vinum, Gr. oivos)

wine and 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 and importing See also:

• PETROLEUM (Lat. Petra, rock, and oleuin, oil)

petroleum . Sistova is identified with the See also:

• ROMAN

Roman See also:

• COLONY (Lat. colonia, from colonus, a cultivator)

colony Novae mentioned by See also:

• PTOLEMY (CLAUDIUS PTOLEMAEUS)

Ptolemy . The exact site appears to have been Staklen, to the See also:

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

west of the See also:

• PRESENT

present See also:

• TOWN

town, which has gradually moved See also:

• EAST
• EAST, ALFRED (1849- )

east-See also:

• WARD
• WARD, ADOLPHUS WILLIAM (1837- )
• WARD, ARTEMUS
• WARD, EDWARD MATTHEW (1816-1879)
• WARD, ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS (1844-1911)
• WARD, JAMES (1769--1859)
• WARD, JAMES (1843– )
• WARD, JOHN QUINCY ADAMS (1830-1910)
• WARD, LESTER FRANK (1841– )
• WARD, MARY AUGUSTA [MRS HUMPHRY WARD]
• WARD, WILLIAM (1766-1826)
• WARD, WILLIAM GEORGE (1812-1882)

ward since the 16th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century, when it was almost destroyed in the Turkish See also:

• WARS

wars . It was at Sistova that the See also:

• PEACE
• PEACE, BREACH OF THE

peace of 1790 was signed, by which the See also:

• AUSTRIAN

Austrian-Turkish boundary was determined . The town was burned in 1810 by the Russians; but after 18zo it began to revive, and the introduction of See also:

• STEAM
• STEAM (0. Eng. steam, vapour, smoke, cf. Du. steam; the origin is unknown)

steam See also:

• TRAFFIC

traffic on the See also:

• LOWER

lower Danube (1835) restored its prosperity . The Walachian town of See also:

• ALEXANDRIA
• ALEXANDRIA (Arab. Iskenderia)

Alexandria was founded by fugitives from Sistova in 1878 .