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ORSHA (Polish Orsza)

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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 331 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ORSHA (See also:Polish Orsza) , a See also:town of See also:Russia, in the See also:government of See also:Mogilev, 74 M. by See also:rail W.S.W. of See also:Smolensk on the See also:Moscow-See also:Warsaw railway, and on the See also:Dnieper. Pop. (1897), 13,161. It is an important See also:entrepot for See also:grain, seeds and See also:timber. It is a very old town, mentioned in the See also:annals under the name of Rsha in ro67. In the 13th See also:century it was taken by the See also:Lithuanians, who fortified it. In 1604 the Poles founded there a Jesuit See also:college. The Russians besieged Orsha more than once in the 16th and 17th centuries, and finally annexed it in 1772.

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