TOWN OF KIRK KILESSE.
- j r ,/ • • /. . VAN -IMPORTANT POST.' v ■ Kixh ' Kii«?s«.M(Turkish! lflflSpl§ll£' east of ;A<iH»nopl«i (around which tbe -betivy fighting is - reports : to - b«yd. tijsea • pl»» * ■ ■ • J. : -• •• '■ • v ' ■ ' ' :\ ;4r % '' , '■I If $f|v felpsf a. * a gikk " or '- , '< f ' \ * V I - . ' ;
•' " .-->'. • ' '. - ... : between, «he: Bulgarians and-Turks)* built near the' head -waters of several small? tributaries, of the river ,Ergeiw. ■ ana on the; "western slbpe*-of the; fetcanja. Dastt range cf< Mountains. * It owes its chief;importanoe-to } lis positica m the southern, outlet of the 1 Eakhi defile ever these mountains, through, which passes the shortest road to* Constantino'ole. ' The town possesses'many'mosques and ? Greek churches. The pooulation iabetween,: 15,000 end 20,000, : of whom about half. are Greeks: arid \, the remainder.' Bui-, goriansi Turkey and Jews. Kirk-Kilesse has an important trade' with Constantinople in butter and cheese, = and. it also exports wine, brandy,>cereals, >"and tobacco. .. - . - 'j . ,
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 15132, 24 October 1912, Page 7
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141TOWN OF KIRK KILESSE. New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 15132, 24 October 1912, Page 7
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