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RADOM , a See also:town of See also:Russia, See also:capital of the See also:government of the same name, roo m. by See also:rail S. from See also:Warsaw. Pop. 28,749, See also:half of whom were See also:Jews. It is one of the best built provincial towns of See also:Poland. The See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church of St Wlaclaw, contemporary with the See also:foundation of the town, was transformed by the Austrians into a storehouse, and subsequently by the See also:Russian government into a military See also:prison. The old See also:castle is in ruins, and the old Bernardine monastery is used as See also:barracks. Radom has several See also:iron and agricultural machinery See also:works and tanneries. In 1216 it occupied the site of what is now Old Radom. New Radom was founded in 1340 by Casimir the See also:Great, See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king of Poland. Here Jadwiga was elected See also:queen of Poland in 1382, and here too in 1401 the first See also:act See also:relating to the See also:union of Poland with Lithuania was signed; the seim or See also:diet of 1505, where the organic See also:law of Poland was sworn by the king, was also held at Radom. Several great fires, and still more the See also:Swedish See also:war of 1701-7, were the ruin of the old See also:city. After the third See also:partition of Poland in 1795 it See also:fell under See also:Austrian See also:rule; it was in 1815 annexed to Russia, and became See also:chief town of the See also:province of See also:Sandomir.
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