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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 244 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SLONIM , a See also:

town of See also:Russia, in the See also:government of See also:Grodno, 155 M. by See also:rail S.E. of the See also:city of Grodno and 20 M. from the railway from See also:Moscow to See also:Warsaw, on the high craggy See also:banks of the Shchara. Pop. (1883), 21,110; (1897) 15,893, including many See also:Jews. It derives its importance from the See also:river, which is navigable and joins the Oginsky See also:canal, connecting the Niemen with the See also:Dnieper. See also:Corn, See also:tar, and especially See also:timber are exported. Slonim is mentioned in 1040, when Yaroslav, See also:prince of See also:Kiev, defeated the See also:Lithuanians in its neighbourhood. In 1241 the See also:Mongols pillaged it and burned its wooden fort. Owing to its position between Galician Russia and Lithuania it often changed hands, until it was conquered by the Lithuanians in the 14th See also:century. From 1631 to 1685 it was the seat of the Lithuanian See also:diet and became a flourishing city. In the 18th century, under the See also:hetman Oginsky, a canal was dug to connect the Shchara with the Dnieper. Oginsky embellished the city and founded there a See also:printing-See also:office. Russia annexed the town in 1795.

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