SILISTRA

sĭlĭˈsträ, town (1993 pop. 48,287), NE Bulgaria, a port on the Danube River bordering Romania. Products include textiles, furniture, foodstuffs, and bricks. The Roman Durostorum, it was founded in 29 b.c. and became an important town of Moesia. Its importance continued under Byzantine and Bulgar rule. After the Turkish conquest (1388) the town was strongly fortified. It was captured (1877) by the Russians and ceded to Bulgaria. Transferred to Romania in 1913, it was returned to Bulgaria in 1940. There are several mosques and the ruins of an ancient fortress. The name is sometimes spelled Silistria.

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books on: Silistra  - 59 results

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Byzantium in the Year 1000
Book by Paul Magdalino; Brill, 2003
Subjects: Byzantine Empire--History--Basil Ii Bulgaroctonus, 976-1025
...Neizdadeni (I) , 104-5, no. 10 (from Silistra); idem, Pechatite, 153-4 (from Preslav...Papahagi, Plombs byzantins d6couverts a Silistra , Byzantion 10 (1935), 601-6 (from Silistra); V. Sandrovskaya, lz istorii Bolgarii...
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Ottoman-Polish Diplomatic Relations (15th-18th Century): An Annotated Edition of 'Ahdnames and Other Documents
Book by Dariusz Kolodziejczyk; Brill, 2000
Subjects: Poland--Foreign Relations--1572-1763--Sources, Poland--Foreign Relations--Turkey--Sources, Turkey--Foreign Relations--Poland--Sources, Turkey--History--Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918--Sources
...Sieniawa) 56 Silistria (Silistrienses) Silistra 18, 19, 20, 22, 29, 34, 39, 47, 49, 53 silistryjscy of Silistra 33 Sina Woda Synjuxa (Syniucha, Sina...Sweden 39 Svlistria (Sylistrienses) Silistra 16 6 sylistryjski of Silistra 56 Syria...
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Erotic Universe: Sexuality and Fantastic Literature
Book by Donald Palumbo; Greenwood Press, 1986
Subjects: Fantasy Literature--History And Criticism, Science Fiction--History And Criticism, Sex In Literature
...will be made by it. 3 In her world of Silistra, Morris emphasizes the differences between...docile. Consider it. 4 As fantasy, the Silistra series has much to recommend it. Its...Estri regains power. In High Couch of Silistra , she loses her physical power but regains...
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Byzantium's Balkan Frontier: A Political Study of the Northern Balkans, 900-1204
Book by Paul Stephenson; Cambridge University Press, 2000
Subjects: Balkan Peninsula--Politics And Government, Byzantine Empire--Ethnic Relations, Byzantine Empire--Politics And Government--1081-1453, Byzantine Empire--Politics And Government--527-1081
...Iordanov 1983: 104 5, nr.10 from Silistra ; Iordanov 1993a: 153 4 from Preslav ; Banescu and papahagi 1935: 601 6 from Silistra ; Shandrovskaia 1981: 462 now in St...Petersburg ; Iordanov 1992: 232 from Silistra ; Iordanov 1993a: 152 3 from Preslav...
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Bulgarian Urban Culture in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
Book by Raina Gavrilova; Susquehanna University Press, 1999
Subjects: Bulgaria--History--1762-1878, Bulgaria--History--1878-1944, Bulgaria--Intellectual Life--18th Century, Bulgaria--Intellectual Life--19th Century, City And Town Life--Bulgaria, Enlightenment--Bulgaria, Renaissance--Bulgaria, Urbanization--Bulgaria
...1869. 271. See the Regulations of the Silistra obshtina of 1866 in D. Draganov, Mate...istoriyata na uchebnoto delo v Russe i Silistra, UPr 12 (1907): 570. 272. The Regulation...from the obshtina of Russe to the one in Silistra, 1871 in D. Draganov, 569. 274...
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The Battle of Turtucaia (Tutrakan) (2-6 September 1916): Romania's Grief, Bulgaria's Glory
Journal article by Glenn E. Torrey; East European Quarterly, Vol. 37, 2003
Subjects: Veniaminov, Ivan, War, War--Analysis, War--Research, Wars--Analysis, Wars--Research
...important sister fortress downstream at Silistra enjoyed a pontoon connection, Turtucaia...Division (ID) at Turtucaia, the 9th ID at Silistra 60 kilometers to the east, and the 19th...it should make a withdrawal toward Silistra." The response from MCG minutes later...
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Evangelical Gypsies in Bulgaria: Way of Life and Performance of Identity
Journal article by Magdalena Slavkova; Romani Studies, Vol. 17, 2007
Subjects: Bulgaria, Christianity, Christians, Colleges & universities, Community, Cultural identity, Field study, Gypsies, Influence, Linguistics, Muslims, Protestantism, Religion
...Bulgaria (the Pleven, Rousse, and Silistra regions), eastern Bulgaria (the regions...frequented by Dzorevci. In the Rousse, Silistra and Bourgas regions, there are churches...visited by Kardarasi (i.e. Sofia, Silistra) and Thracian Kalajdzii (i.e. the...
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Confronting Ethnic Issues: The Role of Nonprofit Organizations in Bulgaria
Journal article by Keith Snavely, Lena Chakarova; East European Quarterly, Vol. 31, 1997
Subjects: Bulgaria--Social aspects, Ethnic relations--Bulgaria, Nonprofit organizations--Social aspects, Turks in Bulgaria--Laws, regulations and rules, Turks--Bulgaria, Turks--Laws, regulations and rules
...ethnic group is concentrated in five municipalities where 49 percent of them live: Kurdjaly, Razgrad, Shumen, Burgas and Silistra. The Turkish ethnic group is not only the largest among the ethnic minorities, but it is also very complex in structure and...


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newspaper articles on: Silistra  - 4 results

 
 
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Shatabdi Puts Sam on Course
Newspaper article; The Journal (Newcastle, England), February 13, 2007
...Irish international showjumper when a teenager, shoved his ride to the line by a length and a half after a lengthy duel with Silistra. The Cloudesley Marsham 90th Birthday Celebration Handicap Hurdle developed into an utter war of attrition that was eventually...
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Vagabond Strolls through Mud
Newspaper article; The Journal (Newcastle, England), March 8, 2007
...the last but she strode out very well and she does stay." Karen Jewell posted a first success in the saddle when keeping Silistra (8-1) up to his work in the Racing Post Hands And Heels Jumps Series Handicap Hurdle. The 23-year-old finished second...
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Second Victory Puts Festival on Agenda; RACING: Today's News and Views - Plus Tomorrow's All-Weather Card
Newspaper article; Coventry Evening Telegraph (England), December 13, 2005
Subjects: Festivals
...hes had a lot of racing of late." Ben Hitchcott and Linda Jewell took the concluding coralpoker.com Handicap Hurdle with Silistra (12-1), who came home a head in front of Amnesty, with Carly Bay four lengths back in third. After an enquiry the placings...
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Strangeworld
Newspaper article; The Journal (Newcastle, England), April 21, 2005
...is the first clone produced for breeding from a sterile animal. A herd of wild pigs rampaged through the Bulgarian town of Silistra, breaking windows and smashing cars. Most of the pigs escaped, but four were shot and their meat is being donated to a home...


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encyclopedia articles on: Silistra  - 4 results

 
 
1.
Silistra
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
SILISTRA sili stra, town (1993 pop. 48,287), NE Bulgaria, a port on the Danube River bordering Romania. Products include textiles...
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Danube
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...passing the Iron Gate, the Danube broadens again and forms most of the Romania-Bulgaria border before swinging north near Silistra and passing through E Romania to Galati , where it divides into an expansive (c.1,000 sq mi/2,590 sq km) delta before...
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Dobruja
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Bulgaria, between the lower Danube River and the Black Sea. The chief cities are Constanta , in Romania, and Dobrich and Silistra , in Bulgaria. Dobruja comprises a low coastal strip and a hilly and forested inland. Largely agricultural, the region grows...
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Kuchuk Kainarji, Treaty Of
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...It was signed at the village of Kuchuk Kainarji, now Kaynardzha, NE Bulgaria, in the Dobruja, near the Danube and SE of Silistra. The treaty ceded Kerch and several other Black Sea ports in the Crimea to Russia and declared the rest of the khanate of...


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