. The earth and its inhabitants .. . — 3«--^ Vî* ^ ^ r^ \ E o-f G 51° 5 •51°30 2 ililes. Hos valley, all recalling the days when this was the great battle-field between Russians, Kumans, Tatars, and Poles. On the east side of the Dnieper the river Trubej waters the government of Poltava, also one of the historic regions of Little Russia. Pereyaslar, at the junction of the Trubej and Alta, is said to have been founded by St. Vladimir on the spot where he overthrew the Pecheneghes. During the later Cossack wars it

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