SERAGLIO

the name given to the ancient residence of the sultan at Constantinople. It is beautifully situated and of great size, and contains government buildings, mosques, gardens, and other fine edifices, the chief being the Harem. The term is now generally used as a synonym for harem or a suite of women’s apartments, town, on Meuse, Liége, Belgium; machinery. Pop. 1921, 36,954. bra , copper, iron goods, pottery, silk; seat of R.C. bishop; cathedral, 16th cent. Mosque; pre-historic remains in vicinity; is famous as the scene of the murder of Austrian heir-apparent, the Archduke Francis Ferdinand, and his wife (June 28, 1914), the event which precipitated the World War was threatened in Sept. 1914 by Mon tene grins, and later (Dec. 1914) by Serbian force invading Bosnia, which advanced ee a day’s march of town. Pop. town, Bengal, Brit. India; contains a Baptist Coll. Pop. 46,000