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population increased from 23,725 in 186o to 66,182 in r9oo. The town is regularly built, with wide streets, some of them lined with trees, and is a wealthy town, which has become an See also:

INDUSTRIAL

industrial centre for the region especially on See also:

account of its See also:

steam See also:

FLOUR

flour-See also:

mills, in which it is second only to Odessa, its distilleries, See also:

MECHANICAL

mechanical workshops, See also:

TOBACCO

tobacco 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 factories and brickworks. It is an important centre for See also:

trade in cereals and flour for export, and in See also:

sheep, 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, See also:

WOOL, WORSTED AND WOOLLEN MANUFACTURES

wool, See also:

leather and See also:

TIMBER

timber. Five fairs are held annually. It has a military school, a first-class meteorological station and a botanical See also:

GARDEN (from O. Fr. garden, mod. Fr. jardin; this, like our words " garth," a paddock attached to a building, and " yard," comes from a Teutonic word for an enclosure which appears in Gothic as gards and O. H. Ger. gart, cf. Dutch gaarde and Ger. .garten)

garden. The town was founded in 1754 and named after the empress See also:

Elizabeth. The fortifications are now decayed.

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