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BELTZ

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or BELZO, a province of Poland, which fell to the share of Austria in 1795. It was afterwards annexed to Bonaparte's kingdom of Poland, but was restored to Austria in 1815.

or Belzo, a town of Austrian Poland, and capital of the province of the same name, seated on the confines of Upper Volhynia, among marshes, in E. Long. 24. N. Lat. 50. 5.