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KREMENETS (Polish, Krzemieniec)

This article appears in Volume V15, Page 925 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: KHA-KRI
KREMENETS (Polish, Krzemieniec) , a town of
south
 -west
Russia
 , in the government of
Volhynia
 , 130 M. W. of Zhitomir, and 25 M. E. of
Brody
  railway station (Austrian
Galicia
 ). Pop. (1900), 16,534. It is situated in a gorge of the Kremenets Hills. The
Jews
 , who are numerous, carry on a brisk
trade
  in tobacco and
grain
  exported to
Galicia
  and Odessa. The picturesque ruins of an old castle on a crag close by the town are usually known as the castle of Queen Bona, i.e. Bona
Sforza
  (wife of
Sigismund
  I. of Poland); it was built, however, in the 8th or 9th century. The Mongols vainly besieged it in 1241 and 1255. From that time Kremenets was under the dominion alternately of Lithuania and Poland, till 1648, when it was taken by the Zaporogian Cossacks. From 18o5 to 1832 its Polish lyceum was the centre of superior instruction for the western provinces of Little
Russia
 ; but after the Polish insurrection of 1831 the lyceum was transferred to Kiev, and is now the university of that town,


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