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  2. Russia, Ohio - Wikipedia

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    Russia was founded by Lewis Phillips, who purchased and plotted the land where the village now sits. Phillips' house, built in 1853, was the first house in Russia; other settlers followed by the late 1850s. Phillips was also the first businessman in the village, opening a grocery store in 1853.

  3. List of shtetls - Wikipedia

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    Town survived, but all Jews were exterminated. The town was then destroyed during the post-war period and rebuilt years later. Bytom: City survived. Chełm: כעלם Khelm City survived, but all Jews were exterminated. Chęciny: חענטשין Chentshin 2,825 (1921) Town survived, but all Jews were exterminated. Chmielnik: כמעלניק ...

  4. Pale of Settlement - Wikipedia

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    The Pale of Settlement [a] was a western region of the Russian Empire with varying borders that existed from 1791 to 1917 (de facto until 1915) in which permanent residency by Jews was allowed and beyond which Jewish residency, permanent or temporary, [1] was mostly forbidden. Most Jews were still excluded from residency in a number of cities ...

  5. List of renamed cities and towns in Russia - Wikipedia

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    a particularly large number of cities and towns were renamed in Russia after the October Revolution of 1917; more renamings happened during the whole history of the Soviet Union for political reasons; in 1945, German cities around Königsberg were made part of the Kaliningrad Oblast exclave, see list of cities and towns in East Prussia

  6. Moscow, Ohio - Wikipedia

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    Moscow (/ ˈ m ɒ s k oʊ / MOS-koh [4]) is a village in Clermont County, Ohio.The population was 155 at the time of the 2020 census.The William H. Zimmer Power Station, a coal-fired power plant that was converted from a planned nuclear power plant during construction, is partially located within village limits.

  7. Line of Contact - Wikipedia

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    The first visual contact occurred at 11:30 am, April 25, in the village of Leckwitz, when First Lieutenant Arnold Kotzebue, from the 69th Infantry Division, saw a horseman, named Aitkali Alibekov, [2] riding into the courtyard of one of the houses on the central street. The patrol was on the west bank of the Elbe at 12:05, and across by 12:30.

  8. Klintsy - Wikipedia

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    During World War II the city was occupied by German troops from August 20, 1941 to September 25, 1943. Consequently, the Jewish population, which constituted about one-fifth of the population at the start of the 20th century, was massacred. More than 3000 Jews were murdered by a mobile squad of Einsatzgruppen in the outskirts of the village. [10]

  9. List of cities of the Russian Empire in 1897 - Wikipedia

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    Northwestern Federal District, Russia [6] See also. History of Russia (1892–1917) List of cities of the Russian Empire in 1840 (in Russian)