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A town in Bulgaria, on the Danube, 40 m. S. by W. of Bucharest; manufactures gold and silver ware, shoes, cloth, etc.; has a number of interesting mosques; its once important fortifications were reduced in 1877.
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A town in Dumbartonshire, on the Leven, 2 m. N. of Dumbarton; engaged in calico-printing, dyeing, etc.; has a monument in memory of Tobias Smollett, who was born in the neighbourhood.
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A town in Essex, near Southend, a stretch of moorland utilised by the Government for gunnery practice.
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A town in Hampshire, on the Test, 8 m. NW. of Southampton; has a remarkably fine old Norman church and a corn exchange; birthplace of Lord Palmerston.
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A town in North Bohemia, on the Neisse, 86 m. NE. of Prague; chief seat of the Bohemian cloth manufacture.
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A town in Northern Italy, on a bay in the Gulf of Genoa, in the Riviera, 26 m. NE. of Nice; is sheltered by a semicircle of hills, and from its mild climate is a favourite winter resort; trades in olive-oil, palms, and lemons.
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A town in the Crimea, 49 m. NE. of Sebastopol; surrounded by gardens, orchards, and vineyards; exports a great quantity of fruit.
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A town in the dep. Drome, France, on the Isère, 12 m. NE. of Valence; a 9th-century bridge spans the river to the opposite town Peage; has a 9th-century abbey; manufactures silk, etc.
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A town in the North-West Provinces of India, 125 m. N. of Delhi, in a district formerly malarious, but now drained and healthy; the population principally Mohammedans, who have recently built in it a handsome mosque.
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A town in Warwickshire, at the junction of the Swift and the Avon, 83 m. NW. of London; an important railway center and seat of a famous public school founded in 1567, of which Dr. Arnold, and Archbishops Tait and Temple were famous head-masters, is one of the first public schools in England, and scholars number about 450.
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