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holding the right or the Danube near the Iron Gates. OLD true faith; sound in opinion or doctrine; ORSOVA, a Hungarian place, is 478 miles especially in religious opinions or doc- S. E. of Vienna, and is a station for the trines; opposed to heterodox and heret- Danube steamers. NEW ORSOVA, on the ical.

Serbian side, is a fortified town held by Austria (since 1878), who also were masters of it between 1716 and 1738; the Turks held it both before 1716 and after 1738. In 1890-1896 a costly canal and other works were made for facilitating navigation at the rocky bend called the Iron Gates.

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