Kustendji, Or Kistendjeh

Kustendji, Or Kistendjeh, a town of European Turkey, in the Dobrudja, the N. E. part of the vilayet of the Tuna (Danube), 70 m. E. by N. of Silistria, on the Black sea; pop. about 5,000. It stands upon a level but elevated point of land, which almost assumes the form of a peninsula, near the termination of Trajan's wall, of which traces still exist. The port of Kustendji is shallow, but affords safe anchorage during the summer. The town was called Constantia in ancient times, after a sister of Con-stantine the Great, who built it, and is still called Kostantza by the modern Greeks. A railway, about 35 m. long, here connects the Danube with the Black sea, and has greatly increased the prosperity of the town. Inscriptions and other remains of the ancient city of Tomi, where Ovid died, have recently been found in the vicinity of Kustendji.

Kutais

I. A Government Of Asiatic Russia

I. A Government Of Asiatic Russia, in Caucasia, bordering on the Black sea and Asiatic Turkey, and embracing the territories of Mingrelia and Imerethia; area, 8,039 sq. m.; pop. in 1871, 605,691. Most of the surface is mountainous. The principal rivers are the Ingur and the Rion, the ancient Phasis. About one sixth of the inhabitants are Moslems.

II. A Town

II. A Town, capital of the government, on the Rion, 115 m. W. N. W. of Tiflis; pop. in 1867, 8,263, mostly Armenians and Jews. It has a gymnasium, several bazaars, and an important trade in corn, wine, silk, and cattle. Near it, on a hill, are the ruins of the ancient fortress, which in 1770 was destroyed by the Russians. Kutais is built on the site of the ancient Cuta-tisium or Cytaea, the capital of Colchis and the birthplace of AEetes and Medea. It was formerly the capital of the province of Imerethia, which belonged to Georgia.

Kutaieh, Or Kutaya

Kutaieh, Or Kutaya, a town of Asiatic Turkey, capital of a district of the same name in the vilayet of Khodavendighiar, 170 m. N. E. of Smyrna, on the Kutaieh-su, the principal upper branch of the Pursak; pop. about 60,-000. It is the centre of the district where the famous Turkish carpets are manufactured, and of a considerable trade and industry, the surrounding country being extremely productive in grain, cotton, gall nuts, fruits, goats' hair, and wool. The town possesses about 30 mosques, three Armenian and Greek churches, fountains, baths, bazaars, and tine private residences with gardens attached to them. A treaty of peace was concluded here in 1833 between Mehemet Ali and the Porte. Kossuth was confined here by the Turkish government in 1850-51. In the town is an old castle built on the site of the ancient Cotyaeum, a town of Phrygia.

Kutaieh.

Kuttmberg

Kuttmberg (Boh. Kutnahora), a town of Bohemia, 38 m. E. S. E. of Prague; pop. in 1870, 12,747. It has several churches and monasteries, an Oberrealschule, manufactories of beet sugar, and important lead mines. Formerly the mines also yielded a considerable amount of silver ore, and in 1300 the first silver groschens were coined here. On Jan. 6, 1422, the town was burned down by the Hussites.