Rodosto (anc. Rhædestos), a town of Turkey, stands on the north shore of the Sea of Marmora, 60 miles W. of Constantinople. It is the seat of a Greek archbishop, contains many mosques, and sends large quantities of fruits and vegetables to the capital. Pop. 18,600, about one-half Greeks.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 8: Peasant to Eoumelia, p. 760
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