Kustendji, or more properly since 1878 CONSTANZA, a seaport in the Dobrudja, Roumania, stands on the Black Sea, at the end of Trajan's wall and of the railway to Tchernavoda on the Danube. The harbour is exposed; but corn, wool, cattle, and hides are exported. Pop. 5000. Not far distant from the town was Tomi, the place of Ovid's banishment.
Kustendji
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 6: Humber to Malta, p. 465
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