DEDEAGATCH

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DEDEAGATCH , a seaport of European Turkey, in the vilayet of Adrianople, so m. N.W. of the Maritza estuary, on the Gulf of Enos, an inlet of the Aegean Sea. Pop, (1905) 4b9ut 3000,
Canonical Influence.
mostly Greeks. Until 187r Dedeagatch was a mere cluster of fishermen's huts. A new town then began to

spring

SPRING (from " to spring," " to leap or jump up," " burst out," O. Eng., springau, a common Teut. word, cf. Ger.
springer
- SPRINGER (Fr. rein)
- SPRINGER, ANTON HEINRICH (1825–1891)
, possibly allied to Gr. QnrFpxecOac, to move rapidly)

up, settlers being attracted by the prospect of opening up a

trade

in the products of a vast forest of valonia oaks which grew near. In 1873 it was made the

chief

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

town of a Kaza, to which it gave its name, and a Kaimakam was appointed to it. In 1884 it was raised in administrative rank from a Kaza to a Sanjak, and the

governor

GOVERNOR (from the Fr. gouverneur, from gouverner, O. Fr. governer, Lat. gubernare, to steer a ship, to direct, guide)

became a Mutessarif. In 1889 the Greek archbishopric of Enos was transferred to Dedeagatch. On the opening, early in 1896, of the

Constantinople

CONSTANTINOPLE
CONSTANTINOPLE, COUNCILS OF

-Salonica railway, which has a station here, a large proportion of the extensive transit

trade

which Enos, situated at the mouth of the Maritza, had acquired, was immediately diverted to Dedeagatch, and an era of unprecedented prosperity began; but when the railway connecting Burgas on the Black Sea with the interior was opened, in 1898, Dedeagatch lost all it had won from Enos. Owing to the lack of shelter in its open roadstead, the port has not become the

great

GREAT

commercial centre which its position otherwise qualifies it to be. It is, however, one of the

chief

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

outlets for the

grain

GRAIN (derived through the French from Lat. granum, seed, from an Aryan root meaning " to wear down," which also appears in the common Teutonic word " corn ")

trade of the Adrianople, Demotica and Xanthi districts. The valonia trade has also steadily developed, and is supplemented by the export of timber, tobacco and almonds. In 1871, while digging out the

foundations

FOUNDATIONS

of their houses, the settlers found many ancient tombs. Probably these are relics, not of the necropolis of the ancient Zone, but of a monastic community of Dervishes, of the Dede sect, which was established here in the 15th century, shortly after the Turkish conquest, and gave to the place its name.

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