BYELGOROD (i.e.

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• WHITE
• WHITE, ANDREW DICKSON (1832– )
• WHITE, GILBERT (1720–1793)
• WHITE, HENRY KIRKE (1785-1806)
• WHITE, HUGH LAWSON (1773-1840)
• WHITE, JOSEPH BLANCO (1775-1841)
• WHITE, RICHARD GRANT (1822-1885)
• WHITE, ROBERT (1645-1704)
• WHITE, SIR GEORGE STUART (1835– )
• WHITE, SIR THOMAS (1492-1567)
• WHITE, SIR WILLIAM ARTHUR (1824--1891)
• WHITE, SIR WILLIAM HENRY (1845– )
• WHITE, THOMAS (1628-1698)
• WHITE, THOMAS (c. 1550-1624)

White

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• TOWN

Town)  , a town of Russia, in the government of Kursk, room . S.S.E. by rail from the city of that name, in 5o° 46' N. lat. and 36° 37' E. long., clustering on a chalk hill on the right bank of the Donets . Pop . (186o) 11,722; (1897) 21,850 . In the 17th century it suffered repeatedly from Tatar incursions, against which there was built (from 1633 to 1940) an earthen wall, with twelve forts, extending upwards of 200 M. from the Vorskla to the Don, and called the Byelgorod line . In 1666 an archiepiscopal see was established in the town . There are two cathedral churches, both built in the 16th century, as well as a theological seminary . Candles, leather, soap, lime and bricks are manufactured, and a trade is carried on in grain, cattle, wool, honey, wax and tallow . There are three annual fairs, on the loth Friday after Easter, the 29th of June and the 15th of August respectively .