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Encyclopedia Britannica



KILIA

This article appears in Volume V15, Page 792 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: KHA-KRI
KILIA , a town of S.
Russia
 , in the government of
Bessarabia
 , too m. S.W. of Odessa, on the Kilia branch of the
Danube
 , 20 M. from its mouth. Pop. (1897), 11,703. It has steam
flour
 -mills and a rapidly increasing
trade
 . The town, anciently known as Chilia, Chele, and Lycostomium, was a
place
  of banishment for political dignitaries of Byzantium in the 12th13th centuries. After belonging to the Genoese from 13811403 it was occupied successively by Walachia and Moldavia, until in 1484 it
fell
  into the hands of the Ottoman Turks. It was taken from them by the Russians in 1790. After being bombarded by the Anglo-
French
 
fleet
  in July 1854, it was given to Rumania on the conclusion of the war; but in 1878 was transferred to
Russia
  with
Bessarabia
 .


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