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IVANGOROD

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 91 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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IVANGOROD  , a fortified

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town of
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Russian Poland, in the government of
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Lublin, 64 m. by
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rail S.E. from Warsaw, at the confluence of the \Vieprz with the Vistula . It is defended by nine forts on the right
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bank of the Vistula and by three on the
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left bank, and, with Warsaw, Novo-Georgievsk and
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Brest-Litovsk, forms the
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Polish "
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quadrilateral . IVANOVO-
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VOZNESENSK, a town of
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middle Russia, in the government of Vladimir, 86 m. by rail N. of the town of Vladimir . Pop . (1887) 22,000; (1900) 64,628 . It consists of what were originally two villages—Ivanovo, dating from the 16th century, and Voznesensk, of much more
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recent date—united into a town in 1861 . Of best note among the public buildings are the
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cathedral, and the church of the Intercession of the Virgin, formerly associated with an important monastery founded in 1579 and abandoned in 1754 . One of the colleges of the town contains a public library .
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Linen-
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weaving was introduced in 1751, and in 1776 the manufacture of chintzes was brought from
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Schlusselburg . The town has cotton factories,
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calico
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print-
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works, iron-works and chemical works .

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