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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 951 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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KURGAN , a

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TOWN

town (founded 1553) of

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SIBERIA

Siberia, in the

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GOVERNMENT
GOVERNMENT (0. Fr. governement, mod. gouvernement, O. Fr. governer, mod. gouverner, from Lat. gubernare, to steer a ship, guide, rule; cf. Gr. xv(3epvav)

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TOBOLSK

Tobolsk, on the Siberian railway, 16o m . E. of

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CHELYABINSK

Chelyabinsk, and on the

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LEFT

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BANK

bank of the Tobol, in a wealthy agricultural

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DISTRICT

district . Pop . (1897), 10,579 . Owing to its position at the

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TERMINUS

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NAVIGATION (from Lat. navis, ship, and agere, to move)

navigation up the

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RIVER

river Tobol, it has become second only to

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TYUMEN

Tyumen as a commercial centre . It has a public library and a botanic

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GARDEN (from O. Fr. garden, mod. Fr. jardin; this, like our words " garth," a paddock attached to a building, and " yard," comes from a Teutonic word for an enclosure which appears in Gothic as gards and O. H. Ger. gart, cf. Dutch gaarde and Ger. .garten)

garden . There is a large

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CATTLE (Norman Fr. catel, from Late Lat. capitale, wealth or property, a word applied in the feudal system to movable property and particularly to live stock, and surviving in its wider meaning as " chattel " or " chattle ")

cattle with

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PETROPAVLOVSK

Petropavlovsk, and considerable export of

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GRAIN (derived through the French from Lat. granum, seed, from an Aryan root meaning " to wear down," which also appears in the common Teutonic word " corn ")

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TALLOW (M.E. talugh, talg, cf. Du. talk, L. Ger. talg ; the connexion with O.E. taelg, dye, or Goth, tulgus, firm, is doubtful)

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MEAT

meat, hides,

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BUTTER (Lat. butyrum, Gr. 0obrvpov, apparently connected with $ous, cow, and rvpbs, cheese, but, according to the New English Dictionary, perhaps of Scythian origin)

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GAME

game and

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fish, there being three large fairs in the

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YEAR

year . In the vicinity are a

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GREAT

great number of prehistoric kurgans or

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BURIAL

burial-mounds .

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