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KREMENETS (Polish, Krzemieniec)

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 925 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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KREMENETS (See also:Polish, Krzemieniec) , a See also:town of See also:south-See also:west See also:Russia, in the See also:government of See also:Volhynia, 130 M. W. of See also:Zhitomir, and 25 M. E. of See also:Brody railway station (See also:Austrian See also:Galicia). Pop. (1900), 16,534. It is situated in a See also:gorge of the Kremenets Hills. The See also:Jews, who are numerous, carry on a brisk See also:trade in See also:tobacco and See also:grain exported to Galicia and See also:Odessa. The picturesque ruins of an old See also:castle on a See also:crag See also:close by the town are usually known as the castle of See also:Queen See also:Bona, i.e. Bona See also:Sforza (wife of See also:Sigismund I. of See also:Poland); it was built, however, in the 8th or 9th See also:century. The See also:Mongols vainly besieged it in 1241 and 1255. From that See also:time Kremenets was under the dominion alternately of Lithuania and Poland, till 1648, when it was taken by the Zaporogian See also:Cossacks.

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