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TURNU MAGURELE

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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 481 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TURNU MAGURELE  , the

capital of the department of Teleorman, Rumania; 22 M . N.E. of the confluence of the Olt and Danube, at the
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terminus of a branch railway . Pop . (1900), 8668 . A ferry plies across the Danube to the Bulgarian fortress of Nicopolis . Large quantities of grain are shipped in lighters to Braila . There are some vestiges of a
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Roman
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bridge across the Danube, built (c . A.D . 330) by
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Constantine the
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Great .

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