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SISTOVA (Bulg. Svishtov) , the capital of the department of Sistova, Bulgaria, on the right bank of the Danube , 40 M. W.25 of Rustchuk. Pop. (1906), 13,408. Despite the lack of railway communication, and the migration of the Turkish inhabitants after the Russo-Turkish War (1877-1878), Sistova is an important commercial centre, exporting wine and grain and importing petroleum.Sistova is identified with the Roman colony Novae mentioned by Ptolemy
east
century , when it was almost destroyed in the Turkish wars. It was at Sistova that the peace of 1790 was signed, by which the Austrian-Turkish boundary was determined. The town was burned in 1810 by the Russians; but after 18zo it began to revive, and the introduction of steam traffic
Danube (1835) restored its prosperity. The Walachian town of Alexandria
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