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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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