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CHERKASY (Polish, Czerkasy)

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Originally appearing in Volume V06, Page 83 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CHERKASY (
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Polish, Czerkasy)  , a
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town of
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Russia, in the
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government of
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Kiev, 96 m . S.E. of Kiev, on the right
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bank of the
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Dnieper . Pop . (1883) 15,740; (1897) 26,619 . The inhabitants (Little Russians) are mostly employed in
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agriculture and gardening; but
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sugar and
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tobacco are manufactured and
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spirits distilled .
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Cherkasy was an important town of the
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Ukraine in the 15th
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century, and remained so, under
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Polish
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rule, until the revolt of the Cossack
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hetman
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Chmielnicki (1648) . It was annexed by Russia in 1795 .

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