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Volume 11 · 52 words · 1815 Edition

a very strong town of Poland, and capital of Podolia, with two colleges and a bishop's see. It was taken by the Turks in 1672, who gave it back in 1690, after the treaty of Carlowitz. It is seated on a craggy rock, in E. Long. 26° 45' N. Lat. 48° 38'.