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Originally appearing in Volume V23, Page 949 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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RYAZAN , a See also:

town of See also:Russia, See also:capital of the See also:government of the same name, 124 M. by See also:rail S.E. of See also:Moscow, on the elevated right See also:bank of the Trubezh, a mile above its confluence with the Oka. Pop. (1897) 44,552. A wide See also:prairie dotted with large villages, - the bottom of a former See also:lake, spreads out from the See also:base of the See also:crag on which Ryazan stands, and actually has the aspect of an immense lake when it is inundated in the See also:spring. Ryazan is the see of an See also:archbishop of the Orthodox See also:Greek See also:Church. The See also:cathedral, first built in the 17th See also:century, was reconstructed in 1776. The Krestovozdvizhensk church contains tombs of the princes of the 15th and 16th centuries. The capital of Ryazan principality was Ryazan—now Old Ryazan, a See also:village See also:close to Spask, also on the Oka. It is mentioned in See also:annals as See also:early as 1o97i but continued to be the See also:chief-- town of the principality only until the 14th century. In the 11th century one of the See also:Kiev princes founded, on the See also:banks of a small lake, a fort which received the name of Pereyaslav-Ryazanskiy. In 1294 (or in 1335) the See also:bishop of See also:Murom, compelled to leave his own town, settled in Pereyaslav-Ryazanskiy. The princes of Ryazan followed his example, and by and by completely abandoned the old republican town of Ryazan.

In 1300 a See also:

congress of See also:Russian princes was held there, and in the following See also:year the town was taken by the Moscow See also:prince. It continued, however, to be the See also:residence of the Ryazan princes until 1517. In 1365 and 1377 it was plundered and burned by the See also:Tatars, but in 146o, 15131 1521 and 1564 it was strong enough to repel them. Earthen walls with towers were erected after 13o1; and in the 17th century a kreml or citadel still stood on the high crag above the Trubezh.

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