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BYELOSTOK (Polish, Bialystok)

This article appears in Volume V04, Page 896 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: BUN-CAL
BYELOSTOK (Polish, Bialystok) , a town of West
Russia
 , in the government of and 53 M. by rail S.W. of the city of Grodno, on the main railway line from Moscow to
Warsaw
 , at its junction with the Kiev-Grayevo (Prussian frontier) line. Founded in 1320, it became
part
  of
Prussia
  after the third
partition
  of Poland, but was annexed to
Russia
  in 1807, after the peace of Tilsit. Its development
dates
  from 1845, when woollen-mills were built. Since that time it has grown very rapidly, its
population
  being 13,787 in 1857; 56,629 in 1889; and 65,781 in 1901, three-fourths
Jews
 . Its woollen,
silk
  and felt hat factories give occupation to several thousand workers.


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