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BYELOSTOK (Polish, Bialystok)

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 896 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BYELOSTOK (
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Polish, Bialystok)  , a
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town of
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West
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Russia, in the
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government of and 53 M. by
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rail S.W. of the
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city of
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Grodno, on the
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main railway
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line from
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Moscow to
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Warsaw, at its junction with the
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Kiev-Grayevo (Prussian frontier) line . Founded in 1320, it became
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part of
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Prussia after the third
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partition of
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Poland, but was annexed to Russia in 1807, after the
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peace of
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Tilsit . Its development
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dates from 1845, when woollen-
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mills were built . Since that
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time it has grown very rapidly, its
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population being 13,787 in 1857; 56,629 in 1889; and 65,781 in 1901, three-fourths
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Jews . Its woollen,
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silk and
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felt
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hat factories give occupation to several thousand workers .

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