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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 247 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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CHITA , a See also:

TOWN

town of See also:

east See also:

SIBERIA

Siberia, See also:

capital of See also:

TRANSBAIKALIA (sometimes also known as Muria)

Transbaikalia, on the Siberian railway, 500 m. E. of See also:

IRKUTSK

Irkutsk, on the Chita See also:

RIVER

river, See also:

HALF

half a mile above its confluence with the Ingoda. Pop. (1883) 12,600; (1897) 11,480. The Imperial See also:

RUSSIAN

Russian. See also:

GEOGRAPHICAL

Geographical Society has a museum here. Several of the See also:

PALACE (Lat. Palatium, the name given by Augustus to his residence on the Palatine Hill)

palace revolutionaries, known as Decembrists, were banished to this See also:

PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place from St See also:

PETERSBURG

Petersburg in consequence of the See also:

CONSPIRACY (from Lat. conspirare, literally to breathe together, to agree, combine, and especially to form a secret plot)

conspiracy of See also:

DECEMBER (Lat. decent, ten)

December 1825. The inhabitants support themselves by See also:

agriculture and by See also:

trade in furs, 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, hides and 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 bought from the See also:

BURIATS

Buriats, and in manufactured wares imported from See also:

Russia and See also:

west Siberia.

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