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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 388 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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TAMBOV , a See also:

TOWN

town of See also:

Russia, See also:

capital of 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 the same name, 300 m. by See also:

RAIL

rail S.E. from See also:

Moscow, on the Tsna See also:

RIVER

river, and on the railway to See also:

SARATOV

Saratov. Pop. (1884) 34,000; (1900) 49,208. The town is almost entirely built of See also:

wood, with broad unpaved streets, lined with See also:

low houses surrounded by gardens; but it is an archiepiscopal see of the Orthodox See also:

Greek See also:

Church. Woollens, See also:

TOBACCO

tobacco, oil and various other commodities are manufactured. The See also:

trade in 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, and in 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 See also:

PURCHASED

purchased in the See also:

south and sent to Moscow, is far less important than that of See also:

MORSHANSK

Morshansk and See also:

KOZLOV

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