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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 237 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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SLAVYANSK , 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:

KHARKOV

Kharkov, 158 m. by See also:

RAIL

rail S.E. of the town of Kharkov, on the Torets See also:

RIVER

river and See also:

close by several See also:

salt lakes, from which salt is extracted. Pop. (1897) 15,644. There are See also:

SOAP

soap, See also:

CANDLE (Lat. candela, from candere, to glow)

candle and 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:

WORKS

works. Slavyansk carries on a brisk See also:

trade in 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 tallow. The See also:

ancient name of Slavyansk was Tor. The town, which is supposed to occupy the site of a former See also:

settlement of the Torks (See also:

TURKS

Turks), who inhabited the See also:

STEPPES

steppes of the See also:

Don, was founded in 1676 by the Russians to protect the salt marshes. Having an open See also:

STEPPE (from the Russ. stepi, a waste)

steppe behind it, this fort was often destroyed by the See also:

TATARS (the common form Tartars is less correct)

Tatars. Its salt trade became insignificant in the 18th See also:

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

century and only revived towards the end of the 19th century.

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