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ORSHA (Polish Orsza)

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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 331 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ORSHA (
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Polish Orsza)  , a
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town of
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Russia, in the
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government of
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Mogilev, 74 M. by
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rail W.S.W. of
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Smolensk on the
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Moscow-
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Warsaw railway, and on the
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Dnieper . Pop . (1897), 13,161 . It is an important
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entrepot for
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grain, seeds and
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timber . It is a very old town, mentioned in the
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annals under the name of Rsha in ro67 . In the 13th
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century it was taken by the
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Lithuanians, who fortified it . In 1604 the Poles founded there a Jesuit
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college . The Russians besieged
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Orsha more than once in the 16th and 17th centuries, and finally annexed it in 1772 .

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