Sis'tova, a town of Bulgaria, on the south bank of the Danube, about 35 miles above Rustchuk. It carries on tanning, cotton-weaving, and wine-growing, and does a large trade in cereals. Here peace between Austria and Turkey was concluded in 1791; the Russians burned the place in 1810, and crossed the Danube into Bulgaria close by in 1877. Pop. (1895) 13,500.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 9: Bound to Swansea, p. 480
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