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BYELOSTOK (Polish, Bialystok)

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 896 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BYELOSTOK (See also:Polish, Bialystok) , a See also:town of See also:West See also:Russia, in the See also:government of and 53 M. by See also:rail S.W. of the See also:city of See also:Grodno, on the See also:main railway See also:line from See also:Moscow to See also:Warsaw, at its junction with the See also:Kiev-Grayevo (Prussian frontier) line. Founded in 1320, it became See also:part of See also:Prussia after the third See also:partition of See also:Poland, but was annexed to Russia in 1807, after the See also:peace of See also:Tilsit. Its development See also:dates from 1845, when woollen-See also:mills were built. Since that See also:time it has grown very rapidly, its See also:population being 13,787 in 1857; 56,629 in 1889; and 65,781 in 1901, three-fourths See also:Jews. Its woollen, See also:silk and See also:felt See also:hat factories give occupation to several thousand workers.

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