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MORSHANSK

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 875 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MORSHANSK , a See also:

town of See also:Russia, in the See also:government of See also:Tambov, 50 M. N. of the See also:city of Tambov, on the Tsna See also:river. Pop. (1900), 25,913. The See also:village of Morsha was founded in the See also:middle of 1 Five years later the See also:captain of the See also:ship identified under See also:oath See also:Morse's completed See also:instrument with that which Morse had explained on See also:board the " See also:Sully " in 1832. the 17th See also:century, and received municipal institutions in 1779; but within a very few years it became a wealthy town, owing to its situation in a very fertile See also:district. Since it was brought into railway communication with 'See also:Ryazhsk (8i m. See also:west on the railway between See also:Moscow and See also:Ryazan) it has become the See also:chief centre for the See also:trade in See also:wheat raised in the governments of Tambov, See also:Penza, See also:Saratov and in the eastern districts of the government of Ryazan. There are also extensive dealings in See also:flour, See also:hemp-See also:seed, See also:tallow and potash.

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