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KISHINEV (Kishlanow of the Moldavians)

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KISHINEV (Kishlanow of the Moldavians) ,a See also:town of See also:south-See also:west See also:Russia, See also:capital of the See also:government of See also:Bessarabia, situated on the right See also:bank of the Byk, a tributary of the See also:Dniester, and on the railway between See also:Odessa and See also:Jassy in See also:Rumania, 120 M. W.N.W. from the former. At the beginning of the 19th See also:century it was but a poor See also:village, and in 1812 when it was acquired by Russia from See also:Moldavia it had only 7000 inhabitants; twenty years later its See also:population numbered 35,000, while in 1862 it had with its suburbs 92,000 inhabitants, and in 1900 125,787, composed of the most varied nationalities—Moldavians, Walachians, Russians, See also:Jews (43%), Bulgarians, See also:Tatars, Germans and Gypsies. A See also:massacre (pogrom) of the Jews was perpetrated here in 1903. The town consists of two parts—the old or See also:lower town, on the See also:banks of the Byk, and the new or upper town, situated on high crags, 450 to 500 ft. above the See also:river. The wide suburbs are remarkable for their gardens, which produce See also:great quantities of fruits (especially plums, which are dried and exported), See also:tobacco, mulberry leaves for silkworms, and See also:wine. The buildings of the town are sombre, shabby and See also:low, but built of See also:stone; and the streets, though wide and shaded by acacias, are mostly unpaved. Kishinev is the seat of the See also:archbishop of Bessarabia, and has a See also:cathedral, an ecclesiastical See also:seminary with 800 students, a See also:college, and a gardening school, a museum, a public library, a botanic See also:garden, and a See also:sanatorium with See also:sulphur springs. The town is adorned with statues of See also:Tsar See also:Alexander II. (1886) and the poet See also:Pushkin (1885). There are See also:tallow-melting houses, See also:steam See also:flour-See also:mills, See also:candle and See also:soap See also:works, distilleries and tobacco factories. The See also:trade is very active and increasing, Kishinev being a centre for the Bessarabian trade in See also:grain,' wine, tobacco, tallow, wooland skins, exported to See also:Austria and to Odessa.

The town played an important See also:

part in the See also:war between Russia and See also:Turkey in 1877–78, as the See also:chief centre of the See also:Russian invasion.

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