. The earth and its inhabitants ... Geography. POrAND: WARSAW. 253 and Wieprz, the fortress of Ivangorod, formerly Demblin, covers the approach to Warsaw from the south-west. Warsaw, or Warszaira, is in every respect the first city in Pohmd, ranking in the empire immediately after St. Petersburg and Moscow. Yet it is not an old place, the name first occurring in the beginning of the thirteenth century. But after the incorporation of Lithuania it was chosen in 1569 as the seat of the Diet, because it was " neither Polish nor Lithuanian, but stood in the neutral land of ; Havin
. The earth and its inhabitants ... Geography. POrAND: WARSAW. 253 and Wieprz, the fortress of Ivangorod, formerly Demblin, covers the approach to Warsaw from the south-west. Warsaw, or Warszaira, is in every respect the first city in Pohmd, ranking in the empire immediately after St. Petersburg and Moscow. Yet it is not an old place, the name first occurring in the beginning of the thirteenth century. But after the incorporation of Lithuania it was chosen in 1569 as the seat of the Diet, because it was " neither Polish nor Lithuanian, but stood in the neutral land of ; Having thus become the rallying-point of the united states, it soon profited by the geographical advantages of its position on a large navigable river Fig. 119.—Warsaw. Scale 1 : 200,000. E. of Paris. 2 Miles. in the centre of a fertile plain stretching from Eastern Prussia to the Lysa Gora uplands. It lies at the point where most of the large tributaries converge—the AVieprz and Pilica from the south and south-west, the Bug and Narev from the east and south-east—thus giving easy access by water to the farthest limits of the land. It also faces eastwards towards the low water-parting between the Niémen, Dvina, and Dnieper basins, continued like a great highway of trade and migrations far in the direction of Moscow. This was also the military route often followed by the Poles in their expeditions against Russia, and in their turn by the Russians, when they overran Poland and laid waste its Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Reclus, Elisée, 1830-1905; Ravenstein, Ernest George, 1834-1913; Keane, A. H. (Augustus Henry), 1833-1912. New York, D. Appleton and company
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