Kherson
the capital of the former Russian province of that name (area, 27,337 square miles; pop. about 4,000,000); on the Dnieper, N. E. of Odessa. The town Prince Potemkin in 1778 as a port for the construction of ships of war. It has a large trade in timber, and manufactures soap, tallow, beer, and tobacco. Wool cleansing is an important industry.
At Kherson Potemkin is buried, and Was & Nihilist move s to the lasUSSS in 1881. Po rovince situated i area of 21,04 about 8,500,000. town in the Easter bank of the Blu action with the Whi ang up since 1880, an and largest town lan, and the emporium ivory, gums, ostric being exchanged fo and slaves being ale the scene of Gordon gainst the insurger his death in Januar ken and held by th cessor, sor, the Khalifa, ti when it was recapture itchener. Pop. abou h), a genus of trees The kassou-khay enegalensis), one of th trees in that par height of 80 oт 10 valued for its timbe or African mahogany very hard, du in.
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