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Kharkov, 330 M. S.S.W. from Moscow. Pop. (1897), 52,896. It is built on two hills (75o ft.), the slopes of which are planted with orchards. The environs all See also:

ROUND (O. Fr. rond, Lat. rotundus, the Fr. is the source also of Du. rond; Ger., Swed., Dan. and Nor. rond)

round are well wooded and the See also:

woods are famous for their nightingales. Among the public buildings the more noticeable are a monastery with an See also:

IMAGE (Lat. imago, perhaps from the same root as imitari, copy, imitate)

image of the Virgin, greatly venerated since 1295; the Orthodox See also:

Greek See also:

CATHEDRAL

cathedral (18th See also:

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

century); and the episcopal See also:

PALACE (Lat. Palatium, the name given by Augustus to his residence on the Palatine Hill)

palace, Kursk being a bishopric of the See also:

NATIONAL

national See also:

church. It is essentially a provincial town, and is revered as the birthplace of See also:

THEODOSIUS

Theodosius, one of the most venerated of See also:

RUSSIAN

Russian See also:

SAINTS, BATTLE OF THE

saints. It has a public 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, and has become the seat of several See also:

SOCIETIES, LEARNED

societies (medical, musical, educational and for See also:

SPORT (a contracted or shortened form of "disport," to amuse, divert oneself, O. Fr. se dis porter or deporter, to leave off work, hence to play, Lat. dis-, away, and portare, to carry; the origin of the meaning lies in the notion of turning away from ser

sport). Its factories include See also:

steam See also:

FLOUR

flour-See also:

mills, distilleries, See also:

TOBACCO

tobacco-See also:

WORKS

works, See also:

HEMP (in O. Eng. henep, cf. Dutch hennep, Ger. Hanf , cognate with Gr. Kavval3er, Lat. cannabis)

hemp-crushing mills, tanneries, See also:

SOAP

soap-works and See also:

IRON [symbol Fe, atomic weight 55.85 (0=16)]

iron-works. It has a See also:

GREAT

great yearly See also:

FAIR

fair (Korennaya), and an active See also:

trade in cereals, See also:

LINEN

linen, See also:

leather, See also:

FRUIT (through the French from the Lat. fructus; frui, to enjoy)

fruit, horses, 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, hides, sheepskins, furs, down, bristles, See also:

wax, 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 and manufactured goods. Kursk was in existence in 1032.

It was completely destroyed by the See also:

MONGOLS

Mongols in 1246. The See also:

defence of the town against an incursion of the See also:

TURKISH

Turkish Polovtsi (or Comans or Cumani) is celebrated in The See also:

TRIUMPH (triumphus)

Triumph of Igor, an epic which forms one of the most valuable See also:

RELICS (Lat, reliquiae, the equivalent of the English " remains " in the sense of a dead body)

relics of See also:

early Russian literature. From 1586 to the See also:

close of the 18th century the citadel was a See also:

PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place of consider-able strength; the remains are now comparatively few.

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