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Originally appearing in Volume V27, Page 946 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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VASILKOV , a

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TOWN

town of

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Russia, 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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Kiev, 23 M. by

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RAIL

rail S.W. of the

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CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city of Kiev . Pop . 18,000, chiefly agricultural . Vasilkov was founded in the loth

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

century, but laid

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WASTE (O. Fr. wast, guast, gast, gaste; Lat. vastus, vast, desolate)

waste during the Mongol invasion of 1239--42, In 132o it was taken by the

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LITHUANIANS

Lithuanians, and later by the Poles, under whom it remained until 1686, when it was annexed to Russia.;: .

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