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KOLOMEA (Polish, Kolomyja)

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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 891 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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KOLOMEA (
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Polish, Kolomyja)  , a
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town of
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Austria, in
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Galicia, 122 M . S. of
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Lemberg by
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rail . Pop . (1900), 34,188, of which
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half were
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Jews . It is situated on the Pruth, and has an active
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trade in agricultural products . To the N.E. of
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Kolomea, near the
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Dniester, lies the
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village of Czernelica, with ruins of a strongly fortified
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castle, which served as the
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residence of
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John Sobieski during his
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campaigns against the
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Turks . Kolomea is a very old town and is mentioned already in 1240, but the assertion that it was a
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Roman
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settlement under the name of Colonia is not proved . It was the
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principal town of the
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Polish
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province of Pokutia, and it suffered severely during the 15th and 16th centuries from the attacks of the Moldavians and the
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Tatars .

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