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Encyclopedia Britannica



HOMEL

This article appears in Volume V13, Page 626 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: HIG-HOR
HOMEL , or GomEL, a town of
Russia
 , in the government of Mogilev, and 132 M. by rail S.S.E. of the town of Mogilev, on the Sozh, a tributary of the
Dnieper
 . Pop. (1900) 45,081, nearly half of whom are
Jews
 . It is an important junction of the railways from
Vilna
  to Odessa and from Orel to Poland, and is in steamer communication with Kiev and Mogilev. In front of Prince Paskevich's castle stands an equestrian statue of the Polish general Joseph Poniatowski, and in the
cathedral
  is the tomb of the
chancellor
  Nikolai Petrovich Rumantsev, by
Canova
 . The town carries on a brisk
trade
  in hops, corn and timber; there are also
paper
 -pulp mills and oil factories. Homel was founded in the 12th
century
 , and after changing hands several times between Poles and Russians was annexed to
Russia
  in 1772. In 1648 it suffered at the hands of the Cossack chieftain Bogdan Chmielnicki.


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