Sebastopol

Sebastopol, a fortified seaport of Russia, situated on a splendid natural harbour (4½ m. by ½), on the SW. of the Crimea; during the Crimean War was destroyed and captured by the French and English after a siege lasting from October 9, 1854, to September 18, 1855; has, since 1885, been restored, and is now an important naval station; exports large quantities of grain.

Population (circa 1900) given as 34,000.

Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)

Sebastiano del Piombo * Sebillot, Paul
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Scudéry, Madeleine de
Sculptured Stones
Scutari
Scylla and Charybdis
Scythians
Seabury, Samuel
Sealed Orders
Sea-Serpent
Sebastian. St.
Sebastiano del Piombo
Sebastopol
Sebillot, Paul
Secker, Thomas
Second-Sight
Secularist
Sedan
Sedgemoor
Sedgwick, Adam
Seeley, Sir John Robert
Segovia
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