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NOVOROSSIYSK , a seaport See also:

TOWN

town of S. See also:

Russia, in the Chernomorsk or See also:

Black See also:

Sea territory, on a See also:

bay of the same name (also na.med Tsemes), on the N.E. See also:

COAST (from Lat. costa, a rib, side)

coast of the Black Sea. Pop. (1900) 40,384. The bay, nearly 3 M. wide at its entrance on the E., and 5 M. deep from E. to W., is exposed to the N.E. See also:

wind (See also:

BARE

bare), which sweeps down from the See also:

CAUCASUS

Caucasus Mountains with See also:

GREAT

great violence. There is an artificial See also:

HARBOUR (from M.E. hereberge, here, an army; cf. Ger. Heer and -beorg, protection or shelter. Other early forms in English were herberwe and haiborow, as seen in various place names, such as Market Harborough.. The French auberge, an inn, derived through

harbour (1893) protected by a See also:

mole. Novorossiysk is connected by a See also:

BRANCH (from the Fr. branche, late Lat. branca, an animal's paw)

branch railway to Tikhoryetskaya (169 m.) with the See also:

main Caucasian See also:

LINE

line, which crosses the See also:

VOLGA (known to the Tatars as Etil, Jill or Atel; to the Finnish tribes as Rau, and to the ancients as Rha and Oarus)

Volga near See also:

TSARITSYN

Tsaritsyn, and has become an important centre for the export of See also:

corn, and since the See also:

PETROLEUM (Lat. Petra, rock, and oleuin, oil)

petroleum See also:

wells of See also:

GROZNYI

Groznyi in See also:

NORTHERN

northern See also:

Caucasia were tapped it has become an See also:

ENTREPOT (a French word, from the Lat. interpositum, that which is placed between)

entrepot for the export of petroleum. See also:

CEMENT (from Lat. caementum, rough pieces of stone, a shortened form of caedimentum, from caedere, to cut)

Cement is manufactured. Large 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 See also:

ELEVATORS, LIFTS

elevators have been built, and a new commercial town has grown up. Besides cereals, which amount to 69 % of the whole, the exports consist of petroleum and petroleum See also:

WASTE (O. Fr. wast, guast, gast, gaste; Lat. vastus, vast, desolate)

waste, oilcake, See also:

LINSEED

linseed, See also:

TIMBER

timber, See also:

BRAN

bran, See also:

millet See also:

SEED (from the root seen in Lat. serere, to sow)

seed, See also:

WOOL, WORSTED AND WOOLLEN MANUFACTURES

wool, potash, See also:

ZINC

zinc ore and See also:

LIQUORICE

liquorice, the See also:

TOTAL

total See also:

ANNUAL

annual value ranging between 31 and 54 millions See also:

sterling. The imports are small. Some 1500 acres in the vicinity of the town are planted with vines.

Novorossiysk has belonged to Russia since 1829.

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