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SOROKI

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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 434 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SOROKI  , a

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town of south Russia, in the government of
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Bessarabia, 81 m . N.N.W. of Kishinev, in a narrow
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ravine on the right
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bank of the
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Dnieper . Pop . (1900), 25,523, )
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half of whom were Jews . It is an important
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river
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port for the export of corn, wool, fruit, wine and cattle . Formerly it was the old Genoese colony of Olchionia, and has still the ruins of a 13th-century . Genoese castle . In the 15th century the Moldavians erected here a fort, which the Poles took in the 17th century . Peter the
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Great captured the place in 1711, but it was returned to the
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Turks, and was only definitely annexed to Russia in 1812 . (M . H .

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