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SALYANY

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 104 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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SALYANY , a

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TOWN

town of

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RUSSIAN

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TRANSCAUCASIA

Transcaucasia, 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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BAKU

Baku, 8o m . S.S.W. from Baku, on the

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RIVER

river Kura, and on an

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ISLAND (O.E. ieg =isle, +land')

island of the same name . In 1897 its

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

population was l o,168, chiefly

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TATARS (the common form Tartars is less correct)

Tatars . It is a fishing centre, where thousands of workers gather from all parts of

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Russia during the

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SEASON (0. Fr. seson, seison, mod. saison, Lat. satio, sowing time, the spring, from serere, to sow; in Late Lat. the word is found with its present meaning, the spring being considered as particularly the season of the year)

season . Salyany was annexed to Russia in the 18th

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

century, but was retaken by the Persians, and only became Russian finally in 1813 .

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