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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 891 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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KOLOMNA , 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:

Moscow, situated on the railway between Moscow and See also:

RYAZAN

Ryazan, 72 M. S.E. of Moscow, at the confluence of the Moskva See also:

RIVER

river with the Kolomenka. Pop. (1897), 20,970. It is an old town, mentioned in the See also:

ANNALS (Annales, from annus, a year)

annals in 1177, and until the 14th See also:

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

century was the See also:

capital of the Ryazan principality. It suffered greatly from the invasions of the See also:

TATARS (the common form Tartars is less correct)

Tatars in the 13th century, who destroyed it four times, as well as from the See also:

WARS

wars of the 17th century; but it always recovered and has never lost its commercial importance. During the 19th century it became a centre for the manufacture of silks, cottons, See also:

ROPES, JOHN CODMAN (1836–1899)

ropes and See also:

leather. Here too are railway workshops, where locomotives and wagons are made. Kolomna carries on an active 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:

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:

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, skins, See also:

salt and See also:

TIMBER

timber. It has several old churches of See also:

GREAT

great archaeological See also:

INTEREST

interest, including two of the 14th century, one being the See also:

CATHEDRAL

cathedral. One See also:

GATE

gate (restored in 1895) of the fortifications of the Kreml still survives.

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