See also:

• ORSHA (Polish Orsza)

ORSHA (See also:

• POLISH

Polish Orsza)  , a See also:

• TOWN

town of See also:

• RUSSIA
• RUSSIA (Rossiya)

Russia, in the See also:

• 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)

government of See also:

• MOGILEV

Mogilev, 74 M. by See also:

• RAIL

rail W.S.W. of See also:

• SMOLENSK

Smolensk on the See also:

• MOSCOW (Russian Moskva)
• MOSCOW, (Russian Moskva)

Moscow-See also:

• WARSAW
• WARSAW (Polish Warszawa, Ger. Warschau, Fr. Varsovie)

Warsaw railway, and on the See also:

• DNIEPER

Dnieper . Pop . (1897), 13,161 . It is an important See also:

• ENTREPOT (a French word, from the Lat. interpositum, that which is placed between)

entrepot for See also:

• 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 ")

grain, seeds and See also:

• TIMBER

timber . It is a very old town, mentioned in the See also:

• ANNALS (Annales, from annus, a year)

annals under the name of Rsha in ro67 . In the 13th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century it was taken by the See also:

• LITHUANIANS

Lithuanians, who fortified it . In 1604 the Poles founded there a Jesuit See also:

• COLLEGE (Collegium)

college . The Russians besieged See also:

• ORSHA (Polish Orsza)

Orsha more than once in the 16th and 17th centuries, and finally annexed it in 1772 .