Semipalatinsk, a mountainous province of Asiatic Russia, stretching between Lake Balkash (S.) and Tomsk; encloses stretches of steppe-land on which cattle and horses are reared; some mining of silver, lead, and copper is also done. Semipalatinsk, the capital (18), stands on the Irtish; has two annual fairs, and is an important trading mart.
Population (circa 1900) given as 586,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Seminoles * Semi-Pelagianism