Identifier: colliersnewencyc01newy (find matches)
Title: Collier's new encyclopedia : a loose-leaf and self-revising reference work ... with 515 illustrations and ninety-six maps
Year: 1921 (1920s)
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Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: New York : P. F. Collier
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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N (as-tra-kan), a Rus-sian city, capital of the government ofthe same name, on an elevated islandin the Volga. It is the seat of a Greekarchbishop and has a large cathedral,as well as places of worship for Moham-medans, Armenians, etc. The manu-factures are large and increasing, andthe fisheries (sturgeon, etc.) very im-portant. It is the chief port of the Cas-pian, and has regular steam communi-cation with the principal towns on itsshores. Pop. about 150,000, composed ofvarious races. The government has anarea of 91,327 square miles. It consistsalmost entirely of two vast steppes, sep-arated from each other by the Volga,and forming for the most part arid,sterile deserts. Pop. about 1,350,000. ASTRAKHAN, a name given to sheep-skins with a curled woolly surface ob-tained from a variety of sheep found inBokhara, Persia, and Syria; also arough fabric with a pile in imitation ofthis. ASTRINGENTS, substances whichproduce contraction and condensationof the muscular fiber: for instance, when
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