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Mangalia
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
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a town in the department of Constantza Rumania, situated on the Black Sea, and at the mouth of a small stream, the Mangalia, io m. N. of the Bulgarian frontier. Pop. (1900), 1 459. The inhabitants, among whom are many Turks and Bulgarians, are mostly fisherfolk. Mangalia is to be identified with the Thracian Kallatis or Acervetis, a colony of Miletus which continued to be a flourishing place to the close of the Roman period. In the 14th century it had 30,000 inhabitants, and a large trade with Genoa.
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Mangalia'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/m/mangalia.html. 1910.
Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Mangalia'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/m/mangalia.html. 1910.
