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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 682 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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SERPUKHOV , 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:

Moscow, 62 m. by See also:

RAIL

rail S. of the See also:

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

city of Moscow. The See also:

POPULATION (Lat. populus, people; populare, to populate)

population in 1884 was 22,420, and 24,456 in 1897. Built on high cliffs on both See also:

banks of the See also:

RIVER

river See also:

NARA

Nara, 3 M. above its confluence with the Oka, Serpukhov is an important manufacturing and commercial town. Its manufactories produce See also:

cotton and woollen stuffs, See also:

paper, See also:

leather, chemicals and candles. See also:

PETTY, SIR WILLIAM (1623-1687)

Petty trades are much See also:

DEVELOPED

developed in the neighbourhood—textile fabrics, See also:

FURNITURE (from " furnish," Fr. fournir)

furniture, and earthenware and See also:

PORCELAIN

porcelain. The manufactured goods of Serpukhov are sent—mostly by rail— to the fairs of Nizhniy-See also:

Novgorod and the See also:

UKRAINE (" frontier ")

Ukraine, while large amounts of 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:

HEMP (in O. Eng. henep, cf. Dutch hennep, Ger. Hanf , cognate with Gr. Kavval3er, Lat. cannabis)

hemp and See also:

TIMBER

timber, brought from the See also:

east down the Oka, are discharged at Serpukhov and sent on to Moscow and St See also:

PETERSBURG

Petersburg. The See also:

CATHEDRAL

cathedral (1380) was rebuilt in the 18th See also:

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century; the old fortress has almost entirely disappeared. Serpukhov is one of the See also:

OLDEST

oldest towns of the principality of Moscow; in 1328 it was a nearly See also:

INDEPENDENT

independent principality under the See also:

PROTECTORATE

protectorate of Moscow. Its fortress protected Moscow on the See also:

south and was often attacked by the See also:

TATARS (the common form Tartars is less correct)

Tatars; the Mongol See also:

prince Toktamish plundered it in 1382, and the See also:

LITHUANIANS

Lithuanians in 1410. In 1556 the town was strongly fortified, so that fifteen years later it was able to resist the See also:

MONGOLS

Mongols. Its commercial importance See also:

DATES

dates from the 18th century.

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