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BYELGOROD (i.e. White Town)

This article appears in Volume V04, Page 895 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: BUN-CAL
BYELGOROD (i.e. White Town) , a town of
Russia
 , in the government of Kursk, room. S.S.E. by rail from the city of that name, in 5o 46' N. lat. and 36 37' E.
long
 ., clustering on a
chalk
  hill on the right bank of the Donets. Pop. (186o) 11,722; (1897) 21,850. In the 17th
century
  it suffered repeatedly from Tatar incursions, against which there was built (from 1633 to 1940) an earthen
wall
 , with twelve forts, extending upwards of 200 M. from the Vorskla to the Don, and called the Byelgorod line. In 1666 an archiepiscopal see was established in the town. There are two
cathedral
  churches, both built in the 16th
century
 , as well as a theological
seminary
 . Candles, leather, soap, lime and bricks are manufactured, and a
trade
  is carried on in
grain
 , cattle, wool, honey, wax and tallow. There are three annual fairs, on the loth Friday after Easter, the 29th of June and the 15th of August respectively.


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