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MUHALICH

Volume 15 · 335 words · 1860 Edition

or Mikalitza, a town of Asiatic Turkey, in the pashalic of Anatolia, is situated in a plain near the confluence of the Susuelu and the Ulubad, about 15 miles from the mouth of the united stream, which takes the name of Muhalich, and 35 miles W.N.W. of Brusa. The town contains nine mosques and several khans, and is chiefly inhabited by Greeks and Armenians. It has a considerable trade in silk produced in the neighbourhood, and in the melons and other vegetables which are conveyed by water from the east shore of Lake Apollonia, down the Ulubad, to Muhalich, and thence by the Muhalich River and the sea to Constantinople. Pop. about 11,000.

MÜHLENBACH, or Mühlbach, a town of Transylvania, is situated on a river of the same name, 12 miles S. of Alba Julia, and 30 W.N.W. of Hermannstadt. It is surrounded by walls, beyond which there are two suburbs; and is defended by two regularly-built forts. There are here a Lutheran and a Catholic church, a Franciscan convent, and a Protestant school. Weaving is the principal branch of industry carried on; and there is a considerable trade in wine. Pop. 4200.

MÜHLHAUSEN, a town of Prussia, in the government of Erfurt, pleasantly situated on the Unstrut, 29 miles N.W. of Erfurt. It is surrounded by walls with towers, and was formerly a free town of the empire. It has four churches, of which the High Church is the most handsome; a high school; and several hospitals and other benevolent institutions. Manufactures of leather, linen and woollen fabrics, and tobacco are carried on; and there are also breweries and distilleries in the town, and copper and iron mines in the neighbourhood. Mühlhausen was in 1524 the head-quarters of the Anabaptist rebel and fanatic Munzer, who excited to insurrection a large number of peasants from the surrounding country. The town preserved its liberty and popular government till 1802, when it was ceded to the kingdom of Prussia, to which it has since belonged. Pop. 13,723.