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See also:KHOTIN, or KHOTEEN (variously written Khochim, Choczim, and Chocim)
, a fortified See also:town of See also:South See also:Russia, in the See also:government of See also:Bessarabia, in 48° 30' N. and 26° 30' E., on the right See also:bank of the See also:Dniester, near the See also:Austrian (Galician) frontier, and opposite Podolian Kamenets
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(1897), 18,126
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It possesses a few manufactures (See also:leather, candles, See also:beer, shoes, bricks), and carries on a considerable See also:trade, but has always been of importance mainly as a military See also:post, defending one of the most frequented passages of the Dniester
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In the See also:middle ages it was the seat of a Genoese See also:colony; and it has been in See also:Polish, See also:Turkish and Austrian See also:possession
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The See also:chief events in its See also:annals are the defeat of the See also:Turks in 1621 by See also:Ladislaus IV., of See also:Poland, in 1673 by See also: |
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