Kolonna

Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 6: Humber to Malta, p. 452

Kolonna, a town of Russia, on the Moskva, 68 miles by rail SE. of Moscow. It manufactures silk, linen, leather, soap, and machines. Pop. (1894) 28,323. Here the Mongols under Batu defeated the Russians in 1237.

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