Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 59, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 March 1920 — Brusa. [ARTICLE]

Brusa.

Brusa, into which British troops have entered without opposition, was the capital of Blthynia when Trajan appointed Pliny the Younger to govern the province. It was from Brusa, then Prusa, at the foot of Mt. Olympus, that Pliny wrote the letters to Trajan which are among the most interesting of his voluminous correspondence. It Is said that Brusa owes its existence to some scheme of Hannibal’s, but of the Roman and Blthynian city hardly any trace remains, though Brusa boasts of very fine old Mohammedan mosques. lovely country, rich In fruit trees and watered by countless springs, and supports a manufacture of silk which shoulddevelop unhindered now that the lethargy of Turkish rulers no longer weighs on the city and its inhabitants.