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PRZHEVALSK

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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 534 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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PRZHEVALSK , formerly Karakol (renamed in 1889), a See also:

TOWN

town of See also:

RUSSIAN

Russian See also:

Turkestan, in the See also:

province of See also:

SEMIRYECHENSK

Semiryechensk, 8 m . S.E. of See also:

Lake Issyk-kul . Nikolai Przhevalsky (Przevalsky q.v.), the Russian explorer in Central See also:

ASIA

Asia, died here in 1889, and a See also:

MONUMENT (Lat. monumentum or monumentum; from monere, to advise, bring to mind, remind; the German equivalent is Denkmal)

monument has been erected to his memory . It is a growing town, and had in 1897 a See also:

POPULATION (Lat. populus, people; populare, to populate)

population of 7985 .

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