Kielce
a province of Poland, before Russia. It forms the S. W. end of the World War a Polish province of Poland, has an area of nearly 4,000 square miles and is watered by the Vistula and traversed by spurs of the Carpathians. Before the war the pop. was 992,500, of which 11 per cent. was interm Jewish, the rest being Poles with some Russians. The capital, of the same intermixture of Ruthenians, or Little name, is a city of about 32,000 pop., 107 miles south of Warsaw. The province was the scene of much of the fighting on the Eastern Front, between the Germans and Russians, during the war, but was finally assigned to Poland by the Peace Conference, as an integral part of that nation's territory.
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