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LUBLIN , a town of Russian Poland, capital of the government of the same name, ro9 m. by rail S.E. of Warsaw, on a small tributary of the Wieprz. Pop. (1873) 28,900; (1897) 50,152. It is the most important town of Poland after Warsaw and Lodz, being one of the chief
thread -yarn, linen and hempen goods and woollen stuffs; there is also trade in grain and cattle. It has an old citadel, several palaces of Polish nobles and many interesting churches, and is the head-quarters of the XIV. army corps, and the see of a Roman Catholic bishop
cathedral
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Lublin was in existence in the loth century, and has a church which is said to have been built in 986. During the time the Jagellon dynasty ruled over Lithuania and Poland it was the most important city between the Vistula and the Dnieper
Volhynia
Tatars (e.g. 1240) and Cossacks (e.g. 1477). In 15681569 it was the seat of the stormy convention at which the union between Poland and Lithuania was decided. In 1702 another convention was held in Lublin, in favour of Augustus
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