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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 799 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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STARODUB , a See also:

town of See also:Russia, in the See also:government of See also:Chernigov, 98 m. N.E. of the See also:city of Chernigov. It is regularly built, with broad straight streets, and the houses are surrounded by large gardens. Pop. 12,451; Little Russians with about 5000 See also:Jews. Tanning and the manufacture of See also:copper wares are carried on, and there is a See also:trade in See also:corn and See also:hemp exported to See also:Riga and St See also:Petersburg. As See also:early as the rrth and 12th centuries Starodub was a See also:bone of contention between different See also:Russian princes, who appreciated its strategic position. The See also:Mongols seem to have destroyed it in the See also:middle of the 13th See also:century, and its name does not reappear until the following century. During the 15th and 16th centuries the Russians and See also:Lithuanians were continually disputing the See also:possession of its fortress, and at the beginning of the 17th century it became a stronghold of See also:Poland.

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