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Botoshani
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
or (Boto§ani), the capital of the department of Botoshani, Rumania; on a small tributary of the river Jijia, and in one of the richest agricultural and pastoral regions of the north Moldavian hills. Pop. (1900) 32,193. Botoshani is corn mercially important as the town through which goods from Poland and Galicia pass in transit for the south; being situated on a branch railway between Dorohoi and on the main line from Czernowitz to Galatz. It has extensive starch and flour mills; and Botoshani flour is highly prized in Rumania, besides being largely exported to Turkey and the United Kingdom. Botoshani owes its name to a Tatar chief, Batus or Batu Khan, grandson of Jenghiz Khan, who occupied the country in the 13th century.. There are large colonies of Armenians and Jews.
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Botoshani'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/b/botoshani.html. 1910.
