Demotica, a town of European Turkey, on a tributary of the Maritza, 31 miles S. of Adrianople by rail. It is the seat of a Greek bishop, and has manufactures of silks and pottery. Pop. 8000. Charles XII. of Sweden resided here from February 1713 to October 1714.
Demotica
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 3: Catarrh to Dion, p. 751
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