(The Forty Churches), a town of European Turkey, province of Roumelia, on a slope at the foot of the Balkan, 32 miles E.N.E. of Adrianople. It is a large but poor place, with ruinous walls and citadel, narrow and dirty streets, and abundant mosques. It is famous for the manufacture of a sweetmeat "composed of the inspissated juice from boiled grapes, formed into rolls containing walnut kernels."