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Pozarevatz

a city in Serbia, 34 miles S. of Belgrade, and 8 miles S. of the Danube. Has few industries except agriculture agriculture , but is the trade center of the Morava Valley. Has a penitentiary with a house for political offenders, offenders, and a women's prison. Scene of treaty treaty in 1718 between Turkey and Austria. Figured in World War, being captured by German-Austrian forces in 1915. Pop. about 15,000.

POZIÈRES, a village in France, near the river Ancre and the Belgian border, on the high road between Amiens and Cambrai, which figured as scene of much fighting in the early period of the World War. The village had at first been taken by the Germans, but during the battle of the Somme, in the summer of 1915, Australian regiments took it from the Germans. It changed hands repeatedly during the war.

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