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UMAR , a See also:town of See also:Russia, in the See also:government of See also:Kiev, 120 M. S. of the See also:city of Kiev. Pop. 28,628, many of whom are See also:Jews, and carry on the export of See also:corn, See also:spirits, &c. It has a See also:park (290 acres), planted in 1793 by See also:Count See also:Potocki, and now containing a gardening school. Uman was founded See also:early in the 17th See also:century as a fort against the Tatar raiders. The See also:Cossacks of the See also:Ukraine, who kept it, revolted against their See also:Polish rulers about 1665, and sustained a fierce See also:siege. In 1674 it was plundered and most of its inhabitants murdered by the Ukrainians and See also:Turks. In 1712 its last occupants were transferred by See also:Peter the See also:Great to the See also:left See also:bank of the See also:Dnieper. But by the end of the 18th century, when it again became the See also:property of the Potockis, it was repeopled and became one of the busiest trading towns of Little Russia. In 1768, when the Cossacks revolted anew against the Poles, they took Uman and murdered most of its inhabitants. End of Article: UMARAdditional information and CommentsThere are no comments yet for this article.
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