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NYEZHIN

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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 930 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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NYEZHIN or NEZHIN, a See also:

town of See also:Russia, in the See also:government of See also:Chernigov, 62 m. by See also:rail S.E. of the town of Chernigov and 79 M. N.E. of See also:Kiev, on the railway between See also:Kursk and Kiev. The old town is built on the See also:left See also:bank of the (canalized) See also:river Oster, and its suburbs, Novoye-Myesto and Magerki, on the right. It has an old See also:cathedral, a technical school and a former high school (See also:lyceum of See also:Bezborodko, at which N. V. See also:Gogol, the novelist, was a student), now transformed into a philological See also:institute. The inhabitants (33,000), are mostly Little-Russians and See also:Jews; there are also some Greeks, descendants of those who immigrated in the 17th See also:century at the invitation of the Cossack chieftain Bogdan See also:Chmielnicki. Unyezh, which is supposed to have been the former name of Nyezhin, is mentioned as See also:early as 1147. At that See also:time it belonged to the principality of Chernigov; afterwards it See also:fell under the See also:rule of See also:Poland. It was ceded to Russia about 1500, but again became a See also:Polish See also:possession after the treaty of Deulina (1619) between Poland and Russia. In 1649, after the revolt of Little Russia and its liberation from the Polish rule, Nyezhin was the See also:chief town of one of the most important Cossack regiments. It was annexed to Russia in 1664.

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