Krajova, a town of Roumania, 154 miles by rail W. of Bucharest. In the neighbourhood are productive salt-mines. Pop. 33,000, mostly engaged in commerce. Here the woiwode of Wallachia defeated Sultan Bajazet in 1397.
Krajova
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 6: Humber to Malta, p. 457
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