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NOVOCHERKASSK , a See also:town of See also:Russia, See also:capital of the See also:Don See also:Cossacks territory, situated on a See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
hill 400 ft. above the See also:plain, at the confluence of the Don with the Aksai, 45 M. from the See also:Sea of See also:Azov, and 32 M. by See also:rail N.E. from Rostov. Pop. (1897) 52,005. It was founded in 1805, when the inhabitants of the Cherkassk stanitsa (now Old Cherkassk) were compelled to leave their abodes on the See also:banks of the Don on See also:account of the frequent inundations. The town is an archiepiscopal see of the Orthodox See also:Greek See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
Church, and possesses a See also:cathedral (1904), a museum, the See also:palace of the ataman (See also:chief) of the Cossacks, and monuments to 1\I. I. Platov (a Cossack chief) and T. Yermak (1904), the conqueror of See also:West See also:Siberia. Wide suburbs extend to the S.W., and the right See also:bank of the Aksai is dotted with the villas of the Cossack officials. Manufactures make slow progress. An active See also:trade is carried on in See also:corn, See also:wine and See also:timber (exports), and manufactures and grocery wares (imports).
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