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Encyclopedia Britannica



DEMOTICA, or DIMOTICA

This article appears in Volume V08, Page 16 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: DEM-DIO
DEMOTICA, or DIMOTICA , a town of European Turkey, in the vilayet of Adrianople; on the Maritza valley branch of the
Constantinople
 -Salonica railway, about 35 M. S. of Adrianople. Pop. (1go5) about 1o,000. Demotica is built at the foot of a conical hill on the left bank of the river Kizildeli, near its junction with the Maritza. It was formerly the seat of a Greek arch-
bishop
 , and besides the ancient citadel and palace on the summit of the hill contains several Greek churches, mosques and public baths. In the middle ages, when it was named Didymotichos, it was one of the
principal
  marts of Thrace; in modern times it has regained something of its commercial importance, and exports pottery, linen,
silk
  and
grain
 . These goods are sent to Dedeagatch for shipment. Demotica was the birthplace of the
1 See also H. Usener in Nachrichten von der Konigl.Gssellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Gottingen, p. 188 (1892) ; J. H. Lipsius, " 7ur Textcritik des
Demosthenes
  " in Berich'te . der Konigl. Sachsischen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften (1893) with
special
  reference to the papyrus finds at the end of the 19th century; E. Bethe, Demosthenis scriptorum corpus (1893).
Turkish
sultan
  Bayezid I. (1347); after the battle of
Poltava
 , Charles XII. of Sweden resided here from February 1713 to October 1714.


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