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JAKOVA (also written DIAKOVA, GYAKOVO and GJAKOVICA)

This article appears in Volume V15, Page 130 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: INV-JED
JAKOVA (also written DIAKOVA, GYAKOVO and GJAKOVICA) , a town of Albania, European Turkey, in the vilayet of
Kossovo
 ; on the river Erenik, a right-hand tributary of the
White
  Drin. Pop. (19o5) about 12,000, Jakova is the
chief
  town of the Alpine region which extends from the Montenegrin frontier to the Drin and
White
  Drin. This region has never been thoroughly explored, or brought under effective Turkish
rule
 , on account of the inaccessible
character
  of its mountains and forests, and the lawlessness of its inhabitantsa group of two Roman Catholic and three Moslem tribes, known collectively as the Malsia Jakovs, whose official representative resides in
and coloured figure taken from living plants sent him two years previously from
Mexico
 . The jalap plant has slender herbaceous twining stems, with alternately placed heart-shaped pointed leaves and
salver
 -shaped deep purplish-
pink
 
flowers
 . The underground sterns are slender and creeping; their vertical roots enlarge and form turnip-shaped tubers. The roots are dug up in
Mexico
  throughout the year, and are suspended to dry in a net over the hearth of the Indians' huts, and hence acquire a smoky odour. The large tubers are often gashed to cause them to dry more quickly. In their form they vary from spindle-shaped to ovoid or globular, and in size from a pigeon's egg to a man's fist. Externally they are brown and marked with small transverse paler scars, and internally they present a dirty white
Jakova.


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