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KOVNO , a town and fortress of Russia, capital of the government of the same name, stands at the confluence of the Niemen with the- Viliya, 550 M. S.W. of St Petersburg
Jews . It consists of a cramped Old Town and a New Town stretching up the side of the Niemen. It is a first-class fortress, being surrounded at a mean distance of 22 M. by a girdle of forts, eleven in number. The town lies for the most part in the fork
work
mead and bone-meal
entrepot for timber, cereals, flax, flour, spirits, bone-meal
to the Teutonic Knights. Tsar Alexis of Russia plundered and burnt it in 1655. Here the Russians defeated the Poles on the 26th of June 1831. End of Article: KOVNO If you wish, you can link directly to this article.
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