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RYEZHITSA

This article appears in Volume V23, Page 950 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: RON-SAC
RYEZHITSA , a town of
Russia
 , in the government of Vitebsk, 150 M. N.W. from the town of Vitebsk and on the railway between St
Petersburg
  and
Warsaw
 . Its
population
  increased from 7306 in 1867 to 1o,681 in 1897 ; but its importance is mainly historical. The
cathedral
  is a modern building (1846). Ryezhitsa, or, as it is called in the Livonian chronicles, Roziten, was founded in 1285 by the Teutonic Knights to keep in subjection the Lithuanians and Letts. The castle was continually the
object
  of hostile attacks. In 1561 the Teutonic Knights gave it in pawn to Poland, and, though it was captured by the Russians in 1567 and 1577, and had its fortifications dismantled by the Swedes during the war of 1656-60, it continued Polish till 1773, when
White
 
Russia
  was united with the
Russian
 
empire
 .


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