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  Zhytomyr Oblast - Enpsychlopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Zhytomyr Oblast (Житомирська область;, Zhytomyrs’ka oblast’ or Житомирщина;, Zhytomyrshchyna in Ukrainian) is an oblast (province) of northern Ukraine.
Historically, the province is a part of Ukrainian Polissya.
The northern part of the province is highly affected by the Chernobyl accident: some of the towns and raions are devastated and included in the Chornobyl' zone, others prohibited from agriculture.
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 Zhytomyr --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Zhytomyr is believed to date from the 9th century, but the first record is from 1240, when it was sacked by the Tatars.
In the north, where it is bordered by an escarpment, the plateau reaches to a line between the cities of Zhytomyr, Kremenets, and Lviv, while in the south it is terminated by the Zaporizhzhya-Balta line, beyond which lie the Black Sea...
The city of Berdychiv, also spelled Berdicev or Berdichev, is located approximately 100 miles (160 kilometers) southwest of Kiev in the Zhytomyr oblast (province) of northwestern Ukraine.
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