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 | | The area known as the "Pale" encompassed 15 provinces (in what is now the territories of Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania and Moldova [formerly Bessarabia]), including the Kiev province (with the exception of the City of Kiev) and the Polish Kingdom. |
 | | According to the All-Russian Census of 1897, the number of Jews in the country was 5,189,401, or 4.13% of the total population. |
 | | In the Kiev Province, Jews made up 88% of the population in Berdichev, 67%; in Skvira, 40%; in Vasilkov; 34% in Tarasche, and 8% in Kiev, where at one time they had been prohibited to reside. |
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