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Bible Encyclopedias
Balikisri
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
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(Balukiser), a town of Asia Minor, capital of the Karasi sanjak in the vilayet of Brusa, altitude 575 ft., situated on rising ground above a fertile plain which drains to the Sea of Marmora. Pop. 20,000 (Moslems, 15,000; Christians, 5000). It is a centre of trade in opium, silk and cereals, communicating by carriage roads with Panderma. The sanjak is rich in mineral wealth; silver mines are worked at Balia and boracite mines at Susurlu. At or near Balikisri was the Roman town of Hadrianutherae, founded, as its name commemorates, by the emperor Hadrian.
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Balikisri'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/b/balikisri.html. 1910.
Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Balikisri'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/b/balikisri.html. 1910.
