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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 841 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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NOVOGEORGIEVSK . (I) A See also:

TOWN

town of See also:

Russia, usually known under the name of KRYLOV, in the See also:

GOVERNMENT
GOVERNMENT (0. Fr. governement, mod. gouvernement, O. Fr. governer, mod. gouverner, from Lat. gubernare, to steer a ship, guide, rule; cf. Gr. xv(3epvav)

government of See also:

KHERSON

Kherson, at the confluence of the Tyasmin with the See also:

DNIEPER

Dnieper, 17 M. W.N.W. of See also:

KREMENCHUG

Kremenchug. Its fort was erected by the Poles in 1615. The inhabitants carry on a lively See also:

trade in See also:

TIMBER

timber, See also:

GRAIN (derived through the French from Lat. granum, seed, from an Aryan root meaning " to wear down," which also appears in the common Teutonic word " corn ")

grain and See also:

CATTLE (Norman Fr. catel, from Late Lat. capitale, wealth or property, a word applied in the feudal system to movable property and particularly to live stock, and surviving in its wider meaning as " chattel " or " chattle ")

cattle, and have a few flourmills and See also:

CANDLE (Lat. candela, from candere, to glow)

candle-See also:

WORKS

works. Pop. (1897) 11,214. (2) A first-class fortress of See also:

RUSSIAN

Russian See also:

Poland (called Modlin till 1831), at the confluence of the Narev (See also:

BUG

Bug) with the See also:

VISTULA (Ger. Weichsel, Polish Wisla)

Vistula, 23 M. by See also:

RAIL

rail N.W. of See also:

Warsaw. Modlin was first fortified under the See also:

NAPOLEONIC

Napoleonic regime in 1807, and in the See also:

WARS

wars of 1813 and 1830—31 underwent several sieges. Since that See also:

time the Russians have made many additions to the works, and the See also:

PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place now forms, with Warsaw, See also:

IVANGOROD

Ivangorod and See also:

BREST

Brest-Litovsk, the so-called See also:

POLISH

Polish See also:

QUADRILATERAL

Quadrilateral. The strength of Novogeorgievsk lies mainly in the new circle of eight powerful forts, erected at a mean distance of 10 m. from the See also:

ENCEINTE (Lat. in, within, cinctus, girdled; to be distinguished from the word meaning " pregnant," from in, not, and cinctus, i.e. with girdle loosened)

enceinte. The importance of the fortress lies in the fact that it prevents Warsaw from being turned by a force on the See also:

LOWER

lower Vistula and commands the railway between See also:

DANZIG, or DANTSIC (Polish Gdansk)

Danzig and Warsaw.

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