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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 161 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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ORANIENBAUM , a See also:

TOWN

town of See also:

EUROPEAN

European See also:

Russia, 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 St See also:

PETERSBURG

Petersburg, lying zoo ft. above the See also:

sea on the See also:

south constitution met on the 18th of See also:

DECEMBER (Lat. decent, ten)

December 1907, when it was announced that the See also:

TRANSVAAL

Transvaal and See also:

Orange See also:

COLONY (Lat. colonia, from colonus, a cultivator)

Colony had each given See also:

NOTICE

notice of the termination of the intercolonial See also:

COUNCIL (Lat. concilium, from cum, together, and the root cal, to call)

council with the intention of each colony to gain individual See also:

CONTROL (Fr. contrdle, older form contre rolle, from Med. Lat. contra-rotulus, a counter roll or copy of a document used to check the original; there is no instance in English of the use of " control " in this, its literal, meaning)

control See also:

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

coast of the Gulf of See also:

FINLAND (Finnish, Suomi or Suomenmaa)

Finland, opposite See also:

KRONSTADT

Kronstadt. Pop. (1897) 5333. It is well known for its imperial See also:

PALACE (Lat. Palatium, the name given by Augustus to his residence on the Palatine Hill)

palace and as a summer resort for the inhabitants of St Petersburg, from which it is 25 M. W. by See also:

RAIL

rail. In 1714 See also:

Menshikov, to whom the site was presented byPeter the See also:

GREAT

Great, erected for himself the See also:

COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country-seat of Oranienbaum; but confiscated, like the See also:

REST (O. Eng. rest, reste, bed, cognate with other Teutonic forms, e.g. Ger. Rast, Riiste, rest, and probably Gothic Rasta, league, i.e. resting or stopping place)

rest of his estates, in 1727, it became an imperial See also:

RESIDENCE (Latin residere, to remain behind, to dwell, reside)

residence. In 1743 the empress See also:

Elizabeth assigned the See also:

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

place to See also:

Peter III., who built there a See also:

castle, Peterstadt (now destroyed), for his See also:

Holstein soldiers.

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