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SOROKI

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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 434 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SOROKI , a See also:

town of See also:south See also:Russia, in the See also:government of See also:Bessarabia, 81 m. N.N.W. of See also:Kishinev, in a narrow See also:ravine on the right See also:bank of the See also:Dnieper. Pop. (1900), 25,523, )See also:half of whom were See also:Jews. It is an important See also:river See also:port for the export of See also:corn, See also:wool, See also:fruit, See also:wine and See also:cattle. Formerly it was the old Genoese See also:colony of Olchionia, and has still the ruins of a 13th-See also:century . Genoese See also:castle. In the 15th century the Moldavians erected here a fort, which the Poles took in the 17th century. See also:Peter the See also:Great captured the See also:place in 1711, but it was returned to the See also:Turks, and was only definitely annexed to Russia in 1812. (M. H.

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