Kirk-Kilissia (the 'forty churches'), a town of Turkey, 104 miles NW. of Constantinople, with which it has a brisk trade in butter and cheese. It is famed for its confections. Pop. 16,000, of whom two-thirds are Bulgarians.
Kirk-Kilissia
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 6: Humber to Malta, p. 439
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