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LOMZA, or LOMZHA

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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 938 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LOMZA, or LOMZHA , a See also:government of See also:Russian See also:Poland, bounded N. by See also:Prussia and the See also:Polish government of See also:Suwalki, E. by the Russian government of See also:Grodno, S. by the Polish governments of See also:Siedlce and See also:Warsaw and W. by that of See also:Plock. It covers 4666 sq. m. It is mostly See also:flat or undulating, with a few tracts in the See also:north and See also:south-See also:west where the deeply cut valleys give a hilly aspect to the See also:country. Extensive marshes overspread it, especially on the See also:banks of the Narev, which flows from See also:east to south-west, joining the See also:Bug in the south-western corner of the government. The Bug flows along the See also:southern border, joining the See also:Vistula 20 M. below its confluence with the Narev. There are forests in the east of the government. The inhabitants numbered 501,385 in 1872 and 585,033 in 1897, of whom 279,279 were See also:women, and 69,834 lived in towns. The estimated See also:population in 1906 was 653,100. By See also:religion 771% are See also:Roman Catholics, 151% See also:Jews and 51% members of the Orthodox See also:Church. See also:Agriculture is the predominant See also:industry, the See also:chief crops being See also:rye, oats, See also:wheat, See also:barley, See also:buckwheat, peas, potatoes, See also:flax and See also:hemp. Bees are extensively kept, and large See also:numbers of poultry, especially geese, are reared. Stock raising is carried on to some extent.

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wood See also:trade is important; other See also:industries are the See also:production of pottery, See also:beer, See also:flour, See also:leather, bricks, wooden wares, See also:spirits, See also:tobacco and See also:sugar. There is only one railway (between Grodno and Warsaw); the Bug is navigable, but wood only is floated down the Narev. The government is divided into seven districts, of which the chief towns, with their populations in 1897, are Lomza (q.v.), Ostrolenka (8679), Mazowiec (3900), Ostrow (11,264),'Mak6w (7232), Kolno (4941) and Szczuczyn (5725).

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