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PLOCK, or PLOTSK

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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 849 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PLOCK, or PLOTSK , a See also:town of See also:Russia, See also:capital of the See also:government of the same name, on the right See also:bank of the See also:Vistula, 67 m. by the Vistula W.N.W. of See also:Warsaw. Pop. 27,073. It has a See also:cathedral, dating from the 12th See also:century, but restored in 1903, which contains tombs of See also:Polish See also:dukes and of See also:Kings See also:Ladislaus and Boleslav (of the 11th and 12th centuries). There is consider-able See also:navigation on the Vistula, See also:grain, See also:flour, See also:wool and beetroot being exported, while See also:coal, See also:petroleum, See also:salt and See also:fish are imported.

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