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KAZALA, or KAZALINSK

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 703 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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KAZALA, or KAZALINSK  , a fort and
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town in the
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Russian province of Syr-darya in West Turkestan, at the point where the Kazala
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River falls into the Syr-darya, about 50 M. from its mouth in Lake
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Aral, in 450 45' N. and 62° 7' E., " at the junction," to quote Schuyler, " of all the trade routes in Central
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Asia, as the road from
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Orenburg meets here with the
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Khiva, Bokhara and Tashkent roads." Besides carrying on an active trade with the
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Kirghiz of the surrounding country, it is of growing importance in the general current of commerce . Pop . (1897), 7600 . The floods in the river make it an island in spring; in summer it is parched by the sun and hot winds, and hardly a tree can be got to grow . The streets are wide, but the houses, as well as the fairly strong fort, are built of mud bricks .

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