Warsaw, formerly the capital of Poland, now of the province of Russian Poland; stands on the left bank of the Vistula, 700 m. SW. of St. Petersburg; is almost in the heart of Europe, and in a position with many natural advantages; is about as large as Birmingham, and the third largest city in the Russian empire; it has a university with 75 professors and 1000 students, and has a large trade and numerous manufactures.
Population (circa 1900) given as 465,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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