Silistria, a town of Bulgaria, on the Danube, 70 m. below Rustchuk; occupies a fine strategical position, and is strongly fortified; withstood successfully a 39 days' siege by the Russians during the Crimean War; cloth and leather are the chief manufactures.
Population (circa 1900) given as 12,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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