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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 988 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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OCHAKOV , a fortified See also:

town and See also:port of See also:Russia, in the See also:government of See also:Kherson, 41 M. E. of See also:Odessa, on a cape of the See also:Black See also:Sea, at the entrance to the See also:estuary of the See also:Dnieper, and opposite to Kinburn. Pop. (1897), 10,784. Strong fortifications have been built at Ochakov and on the Kinburn promontory, to protect the entrance to the Dnieper. Ochakov stands See also:close to the site of the old Miletan (See also:Greek) See also:colony of Olvia and the Greek colony of Alektor. The fortress of Kara-See also:kerman or Ozu-kaleh was built on this spot by the See also:khan of the See also:Crimea, Mengli Girai, in 1492. At a later date it became the centre of a See also:Turkish See also:province which included Khaji-dereh (Ovidiopol), Khaji-See also:bey (Odessa), and Dubossary, as well as some 150 villages. Russia, regarding it as the See also:main obstacle to the See also:possession of the Black Sea littoral, besieged it in 1737, when it was captured by See also:Marshal See also:Munnich, but in the following See also:year it was abandoned, and in 1739 restored to See also:Turkey. The second See also:siege by Russia was begun in 1788, and lasted six months, until the fortress was stormed and taken, after a terrible loss of See also:life. By the See also:peace of 1791 it became See also:Russian. In 1855 it was bombarded by the Anglo-See also:French See also:fleet, and after that the Russians demolished the fortifications.

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