Pirot, a town of Servia, on the Nischava, 30 miles ESE. of Nisch. It was occupied by Servian troops in 1877, and taken by the Bulgarians in 1885. Pop. 8832.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 8: Peasant to Eoumelia, p. 194
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