Stavropol, a Russian government on the Caspian Sea, the inhabitants of which are chiefly nomads and breed horses, with a capital of the same name (36) on a hill, a modern town and a prosperous, both in manufacture and trade.
Population (circa 1900) given as 657,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Stavanger * Steel, Sir John