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KHERI - LoveToKnow Article on KHERI |
 | | In 1871 the total population was 1,661,892, and in 1897 2,744,040, of whom 1,332,175 were women and 785,094 lived in towns. |
 | | The government is divided into six districts, the chief towns of which are: Kherson (q.v.), Alexandriya [14,002 in 1897), Ananiev (16,713), Elisavetgrad (66,182 in 1900), Odessa (449,673 in 1900), and Tiraspol (29,323 in 1900). |
 | | This region was long subject to the sway of the Tatar khans of the 'rimea, and owes its rapid growth to the colonizing activity of Catherine II., who between 1778 and 1792 founded the cities of Kherson, Odessa and Nikolayev. |
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