RYAZAN

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RYAZAN , a town of Russia,

capital

CAPITAL (i.e. capital stock or fund)
CAPITAL (Lat. caput, head)

of the government of the same name, 124 M. by rail S.E. of Moscow, on the elevated right bank of the Trubezh, a mile above its confluence with the Oka. Pop. (1897) 44,552. A wide prairie dotted with large villages, - the bottom of a former lake, spreads out from the base of the crag on which Ryazan stands, and actually has the aspect of an immense lake when it is inundated in the

spring

SPRING (from " to spring," " to leap or jump up," " burst out," O. Eng., springau, a common Teut. word, cf. Ger.
springer
- SPRINGER (Fr. rein)
- SPRINGER, ANTON HEINRICH (1825–1891)
, possibly allied to Gr. QnrFpxecOac, to move rapidly)

. Ryazan is the see of an archbishop of the Orthodox Greek

Church

. The

cathedral

CATHEDRAL

, first built in the 17th century, was reconstructed in 1776. The Krestovozdvizhensk

church

contains tombs of the princes of the 15th and 16th centuries.
The

capital

CAPITAL (i.e. capital stock or fund)
CAPITAL (Lat. caput, head)

of Ryazan principality was Ryazannow Old Ryazan, a

village

VILLAGE

close to Spask, also on the Oka. It is mentioned in annals as early as 1o97i but continued to be the

chief

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

-- town of the principality only until the 14th century. In the 11th century one of the Kiev princes founded, on the banks
of a small lake, a fort which received the name of Pereyaslav-Ryazanskiy. In 1294 (or in 1335) the

bishop

of Murom, compelled to leave his own town, settled in Pereyaslav-Ryazanskiy. The princes of Ryazan followed his example, and by and by completely abandoned the old republican town of Ryazan. In 1300 a congress of Russian princes was held there, and in the following year the town was taken by the Moscow prince. It continued, however, to be the residence of the Ryazan princes until 1517. In 1365 and 1377 it was plundered and burned by the

Tatars

TATARS (the common form Tartars is less correct)

, but in 146o, 15131 1521 and 1564 it was strong enough to repel them. Earthen walls with towers were erected after 13o1; and in the 17th century a kreml or citadel still stood on the high crag above the Trubezh.

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