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Turnu Magurele
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
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The capital of the department of Teleorman, Rumania; 22 m. N.E. of the confluence of the Olt and Danube, at the terminus of a branch railway. Pop. (1900), 8668. A ferry plies across the Danube to the Bulgarian fortress of Nicopolis. Large quantities of grain are shipped in lighters to Braila. There are some vestiges of a Roman bridge across the Danube, built (c. A.D. 330) by Constantine the Great.
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Turnu Magurele'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/t/turnu-magurele.html. 1910.
Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Turnu Magurele'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/t/turnu-magurele.html. 1910.
