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MOGILEV ON THE DNIESTER

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 646 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MOGILEV ON THE See also:DNIESTER , a See also:town of See also:Russia, in the See also:government of See also:Podolia, on the See also:left See also:bank of the Dniester, 57 M. E.S.E. of Kamenets-See also:Podolsk. Pop. (1900), 25,141, nearly one-See also:half See also:Jews; the See also:remainder are Little Russians, Poles and a few Armenians. The Little-See also:Russian inhabitants carry on See also:agriculture, gardening, See also:wine-growing and mulberry culture. The Jews and Armenians are engaged in a brisk See also:trade with See also:Odessa, to which they send See also:corn, wine, See also:spirits and See also:timber, floated down from See also:Galicia, as well as with the interior, to which they send manufactured wares imported from See also:Austria. Mogilev, named in See also:honour of the Moldavian See also:hospodar Mohila, was founded by See also:Count See also:Potocki about the end of the 16th See also:century. Owing to its situation on the See also:highway from See also:Moldavia to the See also:Ukraine, at the passage across the See also:Dnieper, it See also:developed rapidly. For more than 150 years its See also:possession was disputed between the See also:Cossacks, the Poles and the See also:Turks. It remained in the hands of the Poles, and was,annexed to Russia in 1795.

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