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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 914 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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KOROCHA , a See also:

TOWN

town of central 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:

KURSK

Kursk, 75 M. S.S.E. of the See also:

CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city of Kursk, on the Korocha See also:

RIVER

river. Pop. (1897), 14,405. Its inhabitants live by gardening, exporting large quantities of dried cherries, by making candles and See also:

leather, and by See also:

trade; the merchants See also:

PURCHASE

purchase 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:

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 and See also:

salt in the See also:

south and send them to See also:

Moscow. Founded in 1638, Korocha was formerly a small fort intended to check the Tatar invasions.

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