XANTHI (

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• TURKISH

Turkish Eskije)  , a town of European Turkey in the vilayet of Adrianople; situated on the right bank of the river Eskije and at the S. foot of the Rhodope Mountains, 29 M . W. of Gumuljina by the Constantinople-Salonica railway . Pop . (1905) about 14,000, of whom the bulk are Turks and Greeks in about equal proportions, and the remainder (about 4000) Armenians, Roman Catholics or Jews . There are re-mains of a medieval citadel, and on the plain to the S. the ruins of an ancient Greek town . Xanthi is built in the form of an amphitheatre and possesses several mosques, churches and monasteries, a theatre with a public garden, and a municipal garden . A preparatory school for boys and girls was founded and endowed by Mazzini . The town is chiefly notable for the famous Yenidje tobacco .