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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 895 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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BYELEV , a See also:

TOWN

town of See also:

Russia, in the See also:

GOVERNMENT
GOVERNMENT (0. Fr. governement, mod. gouvernement, O. Fr. governer, mod. gouverner, from Lat. gubernare, to steer a ship, guide, rule; cf. Gr. xv(3epvav)

government of See also:

TULA

Tula, and 67 m. S.W. from the See also:

CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city of that name on the See also:

LEFT

left See also:

BANK

bank of the Oka, in 530 48' N. See also:

LAT

lat., and 36° 9' E. See also:

long. Pop. (1860) 8063; (1897) 9567. It is first mentioned in 1147. It belonged to Lithuania in the end of the 14th See also:

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century; and in 1468 it was raised to the See also:

RANK (O.Fr. rant or rent, mod. rang, generally connected with the O.E. and O.H.G. bring, a ring)

rank of a principality, dependent on that See also:

COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country. In the end of the 15th century this principality began to attach itself to the See also:

GRAND

grand-duchy of See also:

Moscow; and by See also:

IVAN (JOHN)

Ivan III. it was ultimately See also:

UNITED

united to Russia. It suffered greatly from the See also:

TATARS (the common form Tartars is less correct)

Tatars in 1507, 1512, 1530, 1536 and 1544. In 1826 the empress See also:

Elizabeth died here on her way from See also:

TAGANROG

Taganrog to St See also:

PETERSBURG

Petersburg. A public library was founded in 1858 in memory of the poet Zhukovsky, who was See also:

BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born (1782) in a neighbouring See also:

VILLAGE

village. The See also:

INDUSTRIES

industries comprise See also:

TALLOW (M.E. talugh, talg, cf. Du. talk, L. Ger. talg ; the connexion with O.E. taelg, dye, or Goth, tulgus, firm, is doubtful)

tallow-boiling, oil-manufacture, tanning, See also:

SUGAR

sugar-refining and distilling. There is a See also:

trade in See also:

GRAIN (derived through the French from Lat. granum, seed, from an Aryan root meaning " to wear down," which also appears in the common Teutonic word " corn ")

grain, See also:

HEMP (in O. Eng. henep, cf. Dutch hennep, Ger. Hanf , cognate with Gr. Kavval3er, Lat. cannabis)

hemp oil, See also:

CATTLE (Norman Fr. catel, from Late Lat. capitale, wealth or property, a word applied in the feudal system to movable property and particularly to live stock, and surviving in its wider meaning as " chattel " or " chattle ")

cattle and tallow.

A See also:

FAIR

fair is held from the 28th of See also:

AUGUST (originally Sextilis)

August to the loth of See also:

SEPTEMBER (Lat. septem, seven)

September every See also:

YEAR

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