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MOGILEV ON THE DNIEPER , a town of Russia, capital of the government of Mogilev. Pop. (1900), 47,591, two-thirds Jews . It is situated on a hilly site on both banks of the Dnieper
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Mogilev is mentioned for the first time in the 14th century as a dependency of, the Vitebsk, or of the Mstislavl principality. At the beginning of the 15th century it became the personal property of the Polish kings. But it was continually plunderedeither by Russians, who attacked it six times during the 16th century, or by Cossacks, who plundered it three times. In the 17th century its inhabitants, who belonged to the Orthodox Greek Church, suffered much from the persecutions of the United Greek Church. In 1654 it surrendered to Russia, but in 1661 the Russian garrison was massacred by the inhabitants. In the 18th century the town was taken several times by Russians and by Swedes, and in 1708 Peter the Great
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