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Originally appearing in Volume V28, Page 168 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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VLADIKAVKAZ , a See also:

TOWN

town and fortress of See also:

Russia in See also:

NORTHERN

northern See also:

Caucasia, the See also:

capital of the See also:

province of See also:

TEREK

Terek. Pop. (1900) 49,924. It strnds on a See also:

plateau, at an See also:

ALTITUDE (Lat. altitudo, from altus, high)

altitude of 2345 ft., on both See also:

banks of the Terek, where that See also:

RIVER

river issues from the See also:

DARIAL

Darial See also:

GORGE

gorge. It is 434 M. by See also:

RAIL

rail S.E. from Rostov-on-the-See also:

Don, and has See also:

REGULAR

regular communication with See also:

TIFLIS

Tiflis (133 m.) by See also:

COACH (through the Fr. coche, originally from the Magyar kocsi, an adjective from the Hungarian place named Kocs, between Raab and Buda, i.e. the sort of vehicle used there in the 15th century)

coach through the Darial Pass (Georgian military road) of the See also:

CAUCASUS

Caucasus. Moreover, a See also:

LINE

line of tailway, See also:

RUNNING

running eastwards to the See also:

CASPIAN

Caspian ports of See also:

PETROVSK

Petrovsk and See also:

BAKU

Baku, connects Vladikavkaz, or rather the station Beslan, 14 M. N. of it, with the Transcaucasian railway, i.e. with Tiflis, See also:

POTI

Poti and See also:

BATUM

Batum. Russians, Armenians and See also:

Jews constitute the bulk of the See also:

POPULATION (Lat. populus, people; populare, to populate)

population, which also contains Ossetes, Chechens, Ingushes and others. There are distilleries and a number of smaller factories. The fort, around which the town has grown up, was built in 1784. The town is an episcopal see of the Orthodox See also:

Greek See also:

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