Brest Litovsk (Polish Brzesc), a strongly fortified town of the province of Grodno (Russian Poland), on the Bug, commands the intersection of several important railways, being 132 miles ESE. of Warsaw, and 682 miles WSW. of Moscow. It has vast magazines and military stores, and has an extensive trade in its cloth manufactures, Russian leather, soap, and wood. Once the occasional residence of the kings of Poland, it is now the seat of a Greek and an Armenian Catholic bishop. It fell to Russia in 1795. Pop. 45,137.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 2: Beaugency to Cataract, p. 426
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