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PROSKUROV, or PLOSKUROV

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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 457 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PROSKUROV, or PLOSKUROV , a See also:town of See also:Russia, in the See also:government of See also:Podolia, situated on the railway from See also:Odessa to Lem-See also:berg, 62 m. N.W. of Zhmerinka junction. Pop. (1897), 22,915, more than one-See also:half being See also:Jews. It is poorly built, mostly of See also:wood, on a See also:low marshy See also:plain surrounded by hills, at the confluence of the Ploskaya with the See also:Bug. Its old See also:castle has been destroyed, the site being occupied by a See also:Roman See also:Catholic See also:church. The Orthodox See also:Greek See also:cathedral (1839) contains a very See also:ancient and highly venerated See also:image of the Virgin. The manufactures include oil-See also:works and See also:potteries; the Jewish merchants carry on an active export See also:trade in See also:corn and See also:sugar, while the imports consist of See also:salt and manufactured wares. See also:Agriculture and See also:market-gardening are the See also:chief occupations of the Little-See also:Russian inhabitants.

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