SCUTARI (Italian or Levantine form of the Turkish a t. of Asiatic Turkey*, on tha eastern shore of the Bosporus, immediately opposite Constantinople, of which it may be considered a suburb. It is built on the sides and summit of a bill. :loping irregularly upward from the water's edge, and bears, both externally and Internally, a great resemblance to the Turkish capital. It contains several mosques, bazaars, and baths, a college of howling dervishes, manufactories of silks and cotton fabrics, corn warehouses, and imarets or kitchens for the poor. It has long been famed for its exten sive cemeteries, adorned with magnificent cypresses, the chosen resting-place, of many of the Turks of Constantinople, from, attachment to the sacred of Asia, and the traditionary belief that their race will one day be of Europe. The.population is variously estimated at from 40,000 to 60,000 or 100,000. ThlS town accidentally:
acquired great notoriety in connection with the English army during the Russian war (1854-56), when the enormous barracks built by sultan Mahmud, on the southern out skirts of the town, were occupied as barracks and hospital by the English troops, and formed the scene of Miss Nightingale's labors, A little to the s. of the general hospital, on the cliffs bordering the sea of Marmora, is the densely-filled English burial ground, where baron 3larochetti's monument in honor of the troops has lately been erected.—Scutari is a place of considerable traffic, and is the rendezvous and starting point of caravans and travelers trading with the interior of Asia. It occupies the site of the ancient Chrysopo/i8; and about 2 m. to the s. lies the village of Railikoi, the ancient Ghaleedon.