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Monday, December 23rd, 2024
the Fourth Week of Advent
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Bible Encyclopedias
Kerasund
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
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(anc. Choerades, Pharnacia, Cerasus), a town on the N. coast of Asia Minor, in the Trebizond vilayet, and the port - an exposed roadstead - of Kara-Hissar Sharki, with which it is connected by a carriage road. Pop. just under 10,000, Moslems being in a slight minority. The town is situated on a rocky promontory, crowned by a Byzantine fortress, and has a growing trade. It exports filberts (for which product it is the centre), walnuts, hides and timber. Cerasus was the place from which the wild cherry was introduced into Italy by Lucullus and so to Europe (hence Fr. cerise, " cherry").
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Bibliography Information
Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Kerasund'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/k/kerasund.html. 1910.
Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Kerasund'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/k/kerasund.html. 1910.
