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 | | Grain, flour, cloth, hides and bones are exported, and a large amount of gold and silver ornaments is manufactured, though this industry tends to decline. |
 | | The military advantages of its position at the meeting-place of roads from Salonica, Durazzo, Uskub, and Adrianople led the Turks, about 1820, to niake Monastir the headquarters of an army corps. |
 | | Since then the general and commercial importance of the city has greatly increased, and in 1898 it was made the see of a Bulgarian bishop. |
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