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See also: town and fort of See also: Asiatic See also: Russia, capital of the province of See also: Semiryechensk, 50 M
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N. of Lake Issyk-kul, at the See also: northern See also: foot of the Trans-See also: Ili See also: Ala-tau Mountains, at an altitude of 2440 ft
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Pop
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24,798
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Founded in '854, it is well-built, provided with boulevards and surrounded by luxuriant gardens
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It has a See also: cathedral, being an archiepiscopal see of the Orthodox See also: Greek See also: Church, a school of gardening and sericulture, a public library, and a few distilleries, tanneries and oil
See also: works
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Situated at the intersection of two roads—from See also: Kulja to See also: Tashkent, and from See also: Semipalatinsk to Kashgar—Vyernyi carries on an active See also: trade in See also: wheat, See also: rice, corn, See also: tea, oil and See also: tobacco
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It was the centre of a remarkable See also: earthquake on the 9th of See also: June 1887
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