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PROSKUROV, or PLOSKUROV

This article appears in Volume V22, Page 457 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: PRE-PYR
PROSKUROV, or PLOSKUROV , a town of Russia, in the government of Podolia, situated on the railway from Odessa to Lem-berg, 62 m. N.W. of Zhmerinka junction. Pop. (1897), 22,915, more than one-half being
Jews
 . It is poorly built, mostly of
wood
 , on a low marshy plain surrounded by hills, at the confluence of the Ploskaya with the Bug. Its old castle has been destroyed, the site being occupied by a Roman Catholic church. The Orthodox Greek
cathedral
  (1839) contains a very ancient and highly venerated image of the Virgin. The manufactures include oil-works and potteries; the Jewish merchants carry on an active export trade in corn and sugar, while the imports consist of salt and manufactured wares. Agriculture and market-gardening are the
chief
  occupations of the Little-Russian inhabitants.


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