SIERADZ

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SIERADZ , a town of,

Russian

RUSSIAN

Poland, in the government of

Kalisz

KALISZ

, situated on the Warta, r to m. S.W. of the city of

Warsaw

WARSAW
WARSAW (
Polish
- POLISH
Warszawa, Ger. Warschau, Fr. Varsovie)

. Pop. (1897) 7019. It is one of the oldest towns of Poland, founded prior to the introduction of Christianity, and was formerly known as

Syra

SYRA, or SYROS (anc. E6pos, perhaps Homeric lapin}, a
Greek
- GREEK
- GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND
island in the middle of the Cyclades, which in the 19th
century
- CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)
became the commercial centre of the Archipelago, and is also the residence of the nomarch of the Cyclades and the seat of the centr

or Syraz. The annals mention it in 1139. Several seines, or diets, of Poland were held there during the 13th to 15th centuries, and it was a wealthy town until nearly destroyed by a fire in 1447. The old

castle

, which suffered much in the Swedish war of 17021711, was destroyed by the Germans in 1800. There are two churches, dating from the

lath

LATH (0. Eng. laett, Mid. Eng. lappe, a form possibly due to the Welsh llath; the word appears in many Teutonic
languages
- LANGUAGES
, cf. Dutch lat, Ger. Latte, and has passed into Romanic, cf. Ital. latta, Fr. latte)

and 14th centuries respectively.

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