Podolia, or KAMENETZ, a government of West or 'White' Russia, north of Bessarabia, and bordering on the Austrian frontier. Area, 16,224 sq. m.; pop. (1891) 2,617,253, the majority of whom are Russniaks. The surface is a tableland, strewn with hills; nearly three-fourths is either arable or available for pasturage.
Podolia
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 8: Peasant to Eoumelia, p. 257
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