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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 138 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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PEREYASLAVL , a See also:

TOWN

town of 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 See also:

POLTAVA

Poltava, 26 m. S.E. of the See also:

CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city of See also:

Kiev, at the confluence of the Trubezh and the Alta, which reach the See also:

DNIEPER

Dnieper 5 M. See also:

LOWER

lower down at the town's See also:

PORT

port, the See also:

VILLAGE

village of Andrushi. Pop. 14,609. Besides the town proper there are three considerable suburbs. Though founded in 993 by See also:

Vladimir the See also:

GREAT

Great of See also:

Moscow in memory of his See also:

SIGNAL

signal success over the See also:

TURKISH

Turkish Pechenegs, Pereyaslavl has now few remains of antiquity. The town has a See also:

trade in 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:

salt, 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 horses, and some manufactures —See also:

TALLOW (M.E. talugh, talg, cf. Du. talk, L. Ger. talg ; the connexion with O.E. taelg, dye, or Goth, tulgus, firm, is doubtful)

tallow, See also:

WAX

wax, See also:

TOBACCO

tobacco, candles and shoes. From 1054 Pereyaslavl was the See also:

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief town of a See also:

SEPARATE

separate principality. As a See also:

SOUTHERN

southern outpost it often figures in the 11th, 12th and 13th centuries, and was plundered by the See also:

MONGOLS

Mongols in 1239. In later times it was one of the centres of the Cossack See also:

MOVEMENT

movement; and in 1628 the neighbourhood of the town was the See also:

SCENE (Fr. scene, Lat. scaena, Gr. oflvil, a tent or booth, a stage or scene)

scene of the extermination of the See also:

POLISH

Polish forces known as " See also:

Tara's See also:

NIGHT

Night." It was by the Treaty of Pereyaslavl that in 1654 the Cossack chieftain Bogdan See also:

CHMIELNICKI, BOGDAN (c. 1593-1657)

Chmielnicki acknowledged the supremacy of See also:

TSAR, or CZAR

Tsar See also:

Alexis of Russia.

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