Redout Kalé

Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 8: Peasant to Eoumelia, p. 605

Redout Kalé, a fortified post on the Black Sea coast of Russian Caucasus, is situated in a marshy region at the mouth of a small river, about 10 miles N. of Poti. It was the chief shipping-place for Circassian girls to Turkey, and was captured by the British fleet in 1854.

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