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Title: Collier's new encyclopedia : a loose-leaf and self-revising reference work ... with 515 illustrations and ninety-six maps
Year: 1921 (1920s)
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Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: New York : P. F. Collier
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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property is valued atabout $250,000. The library containsabout 10,000 volumes. The president for1919 was E. W. Anthony, D. D. ADRIANOPLE (Turkish, Edirne; Bul-garian, Odrin), formerly the third city ofEuropean Turkey, stands on the navigableMaritza (the ancient Hebrus), 198 milesW. N. W. of Constantinople by rail. Thecity has upward of 80,000 inhabitants,of whom about half are Turks. Thesplendid mosque of Selim II,, the palace, airplanes. As a result of the PeaceTreaty with Turkey, Adrianople waslost to Turkey and became part ofGreece. ADRIATIC SEA, a large arm of theMediterranean Sea, extending, in a N. W.direction, between the E. coast of Italyand the W. coast of the Balkan penin-sula, being terminated to the S, by theStrait of Otranto, 45 miles wide. In theN. it forms the Gulf of Venice, and inthe N. E. the Gulf of Trieste. The W.coast is comparatively low and has fewinlets, and the N. is marshy and edgedwith lagoons. On the other side, thecoasts of Illyria, Croatia, Dalmatia, and
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THE MOSQUE OF SULTAN SELIM II. AT ADRIANOPLE and the immense bazaar of Ali Pasha,may be named as its principal features.It has a silk factory, and a considerabletrade in attar of roses and wine. Foundedor greatly improved by the EmperorHadrian, Adrianople was the seat of theOttoman sultanate from 1366 to 1453.In the Balkan War of 1912-1913, Adri-anople, after a stubborn defense of fivemonths, was surrendered to the Balkanallies, March 26, 1913. By the Treaty ofLondon, May 30, 1913, it was ceded toBulgaria, but in the war that ensued be-tween the former allies, the Turks reoc-cupied the city, July 20, 1913. By theTreaty of Constantinople, Sept. 29, 1913,Bulgaria formally restored Adrianopleto Turkey. During the World War thecity was raided many times by enemy 4:—Vol. I—Cyc Albania are steep, rocky, and barren,with many inlets, and begirt with achain of almost innumerable, small, rockyislands. The total area of the sea, includingislands, is calculated at 52,220 squaremiles—the are

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