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AUGUSTOWO

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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 911 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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AUGUSTOWO  , a

city of
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Russian Poland, in the government of
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Suwalki, 20 M . S. of the
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town of that name, on a canal (65 m.) connecting the Vistula with the Niemen . It was founded in 1557 by Sigismund II . (Augustus), and is laid out in a very
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regular manner, with a spacious market-place . It carries on a large trade in cattle and horses, and manufactures
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linen and
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huckaback . Pop . (1897) 12,746 .

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