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

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