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MONASTIR, or BITOLIA , the second city of Macedonia, and the capital of the vilayet of Monastir in European Turkey, on the Salonica-Monastir railway, 400 M. W. of Constantinople . Pop. (1905), about 6o,000. Monastir is situated at an altitudeof 2019 ft. on the eastern versant of the richly wooded mountains which culminate in the Peristeri (83oo ft.) and sever Lake Prespa from the valley of the Kara-Su or Tzerna. A tributary of this river, the Dragor or Drahor, traverses Monastir through a rocky channel which is rarely filled except after a thaw or heavy rain. The city possesses many mosques, churches and schools, baths and a military hospital
Protestant
trade
Grain , flour, cloth, hides and bones are exported, and a large amount of gold and silver ornaments is manufactured, though this industry tends to decline.The military advantages of its position at the meeting -place of roads from Salonica, Durazzo, Uskub, and Adrianople led the Turks, about 182o, to make Monastir the headquarters of an army corps. Since then the general and commercial importance of the city has greatly increased, and in 1898 it was made the see of a Bulgarian bishop
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