ISSOUDUN

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ISSOUDUN , a town of central France,

capital

CAPITAL (i.e. capital stock or fund)
CAPITAL (Lat. caput, head)

of an arrondissement in the department of Indre, on the right bank of the Theols, 17 M. N.E. of Chateauroux by rail. Pop. (1go6) ro,566. Among the interesting buildings are the church of St Cyr, combining various architectural styles, with a fine porch and window, and the chapel of the Hotel Dieu of the early 16th century. Of the fortifications with which the town was formerly surrounded, a town-gate of the 16th century and the White Tower, a lofty cylindncal building of the reign of Philip

Augustus

AUGUSTUS (a name 1 derived from Lat. augeo, increase, i.e. venerable, majestic, Gr. Ee0avr6s)

, survive. Issoudun is the seat of a sub-prefecture, and has tribunals of first instance and of commerce, a chamber of arts and manufactures and a communal college. The

industries

INDUSTRIES

, of which the most important is leather-dressing, also include malting and brewing and the manufacture df bristles for brushes and parchment.

Trade

is in

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 ")

, live-stock, leather and wine.
Issoudun, in Latin Exoldunum or Uxellodunum, existed in and before Roman times. In 1195 it was stoutly and successfully defended by the partizans of Richard Cceur-de-Lion against Philip

Augustus

AUGUSTUS (a name 1 derived from Lat. augeo, increase, i.e. venerable, majestic, Gr. Ee0avr6s)

, king of France. It has suffered severely from fires. A very destructive one in 1651 was the result of an attack on the town in the war of Fronde; Louis XIV. rewarded its fidelity to him during that struggle by the grant of several privileges.
ISSYK-KUL, also called Tuz-KUL, and by the Mongols Temurtu-nor, a lake of Central

Asia

ASIA

, lying in a deep basin (5400 ft.above sea-level), between the Kunghei Ala-tau and the Terskei Ala-tau, westward continuations of the Tian-shan mountains, and extending from 76 ro'to 78 2o' E. The length from W.S.W. to E.N.E. is 115 m. and the breadth 38 m., the area being estimated at 2230 sq. m. The name is Kirghiz for " warm lake," and, like the Chinese synonym She-hai, has reference to the fact that the lake is never entirely frozen over. On the

south

SOUTH
SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

the Terskei Ala-tau do not come down so close to the shore as the mountains on the north, but leave a strip 5 to 13 M. broad. The margins of the lake are overgrown with reeds. The water is brackish. Fish are remarkably abundant, the

principal

PRINCIPAL

species being carp.
It was by the route beside this lake that the tribes (e.g. Yue-chi) driven from China by the Huns found their way into the Aralo-Caspian basin in the end of the and century. The Ussuns or Uzuns settled on the lake and built the town of Chi-gu, which still existed in the 5th century. It is to Hsiian-tsang, the Chinese Buddhist

pilgrim

PILGRIM

, that we are indebted for the first account of Issyk-kul based on personal observation. In the beginning of the 14th century Nestorian Christians reached the lake and founded a monastery on the northern shore, indicated on the Catalan map of 1374. It was not till 1856 that the Russians made acquaintance with the

district

DISTRICT

.

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