Kasanlik, or KEZANLIK, a town of Eastern Roumelia, at the foot of the Balkans, 5 miles from the southern end of the Shipka Pass, and 87 miles NW. of Adrianople. It manufactures otto of roses. Its capture by the Russians on 7th January 1878 led to the surrender of the Turkish defenders of the Shipka Pass. Pop. 20,000.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 6: Humber to Malta, p. 399
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