Tver, capital of a Russian government at the confluence of the Volga and Tvertsa, 100 miles NW. of Moscow by rail. There are manufactures of cottons, hosiery, and nails. Pop. (1890) 39,280.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 10: Swastika to Zyrianovsk and Index, p. 344
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