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LUBLIN , a See also:

town of See also:Russian See also:Poland, See also:capital of the See also:government of the same name, ro9 m. by See also:rail S.E. of See also:Warsaw, on a small tributary of the Wieprz. Pop. (1873) 28,900; (1897) 50,152. It is the most important town of Poland after Warsaw and See also:Lodz, being one of the See also:chief centres of the manufacture of See also:thread-See also:yarn, See also:linen and hempen goods and woollen stuffs; there is also See also:trade in See also:grain and See also:cattle. It has an old citadel, several palaces of See also:Polish nobles and many interesting churches, and is the See also:head-quarters of the XIV. See also:army See also:corps, and the see of a See also:Roman See also:Catholic See also:bishop. The See also:cathedral See also:dates from the 16th See also:century. Of the former fortifications nothing remains except the four See also:gates, one dating from 1342. Lublin was in existence in the loth century, and has a See also:church which is said to have been built in 986. During the See also:time the Jagellon See also:dynasty ruled over Lithuania and Poland it was the most important See also:city between the See also:Vistula and the See also:Dnieper, having 40,000 inhabitants (70,000 according to other authorities) and all the trade with See also:Podolia, See also:Volhynia and lied See also:Russia. Indeed, the See also:present town is surrounded with ruins, which prove that it formerly covered a much larger See also:area. But it was frequently destroyed by the See also:Tatars (e.g. 1240) and See also:Cossacks (e.g.

1477). In 1568–1569 it was the seat of the stormy See also:

convention at which the See also:union between Poland and Lithuania was decided. In 1702 another convention was held in Lublin, in favour of See also:Augustus II. and against See also:Charles XII. of See also:Sweden, who carried the town by See also:assault and plundered it. In 1831 Lublin was taken by the Russians. The surrounding See also:country is See also:rich in reminiscences of the struggle of Poland for See also:independence.

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