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As careful as we have been to trace and identify the administrative boundaries depicted on the atlas, at times it is difficult to do either with great confidence. A case in point is that of the oblast' of Bessarabia, in the southwest corner of the…
98 out of 228 total farmsteads (43%) are located in the Don Cossack territory and another 40 (18%) are located in adjacent provinces. A thought-provoking statistic, indeed.
The voevodstvo was the main (secondary) administrative unit of the Kingdom of Poland; the equivalent of the guberniia in Russia proper.
I am reasonably sure that this is the only place in the empire where a currier had to dismount and climb into a boat (here to cross the Kerch Strait) in order to continue along his route.
Oil painting of the leader of the largest rebellion and one of the most significant events of the eighteenth century.
Initiation of the general land survey in each province. Features are grouped by reign.