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NOVO-GEORGIEVSK 



Nove Mesto". Town of Czecho- 

 slovakia, formerly in Hungary and 

 known as Satoraljaujhely (q.v.). 

 Nov6 Zamky. Town of Czecho- 

 slovakia, formerly in Hungary and 

 known as Ersekujvar (q.v.). 



Novgorod. Government of 

 Russia. The govt. of Petrograd is 

 on the W., Olonets N., Vologda 

 N.E., Yaroslavl E., Tver S.E., and 

 Pskov S.W. In the S. are the 

 Valdai hills, the highest land in 

 European Russia. The N.W. 

 drains to Lake Ladoga, the S.E. to 

 the Volga. Two mam line rlys. 

 from Petrograd cross the govt., 

 which has a trade in grain and 

 timber. Area, 45,770 sq. m. Pop. 

 1,729,300. 



Novgorod. Town of Russia, 

 called Veliki, or the Great. Capital 

 of the govt. of the same name, it 

 stands on the river Volkhov, and 

 the Novgorod Rly., 100 m. S.E. of 

 Petrograd. Its features include 

 the Kremlin or citadel, cathedral of 

 S. Sophia, palace of Catherine II, 

 and a monument, celebrating the 

 expulsion of the French in 1812. 

 There are tanneries and candle- 

 works, and a trade in grain, timber, 

 salt, and iron. In 862 Novgorod 

 was the capital of the Scandi- 

 navian chief, Rurik (q.v.), and it 

 remained the Russian capital until 

 displaced by Kiev In the 12th 

 century it was the capital of a 

 great republic, but in 1478 came 

 into the power of Moscow and 

 remained so until almost destroyed 

 by Ivan the Terrible in 1570. Pop. 

 27,000. 



Novgorod - Syeversk. Town 

 of Central Russia. It is in the 

 government, and 100 m. N.E., of 

 Chernigov, on the river Desna and 

 the Novozibkov Rly. It has a trade 

 in wheat, hemp, and timber. In the 

 llth century it was the capital of 

 the independent principality of 

 Severia. Pop. 13,000. 



Novi OR Novi LIGURE. Town of 

 Italy, in the prov. of Alessandria, 

 Piedmont. It Is a junction 14 m. 

 by rly. S.E. of Alessandria. Silk 

 weaving is the chief industry. Here 

 on Aug. 15, 1799, the combined 

 Russians and Austrians defeated 

 the French, who lost their general, 

 Joubert, and 10,000 men. The 

 French were victorious in the same 

 locality on 

 Nov. 6 of the 

 same y e a r. 

 Pop. 18,000. 



Novikoff, 

 OLCSA (1840- 

 1925). Russian 

 writer. Born in 

 Moscow, her 

 maiden name 

 was Kireeff, 

 and over the 

 signature 0. K. 



she wrote much in defence of the 

 Slavonic cause and in furtherance 

 of Anglo-Russian friendship. She 

 married General Novikoff when she 

 was 19. Among her works are Is 

 Russia Wrong ? ; Friends or Foes ; 

 Russia and England ; Skobeleff 

 and the Slavonic Cause ; Russian 

 Memories ; Searchlights on Russia. 

 She died April 21, 1925. See The 

 M.P. for Russia, Reminiscences 

 and Correspondence of Madame 

 Olga Novikoff, ed. by W. T. 

 Stead, 1909. 



Novi Pazar, Novi BAZAR, OR 

 YENIPASAR. Town of Yugo-Slavia, 

 in S.W. Serbia. Situated on the 



Novi 



Pazar, Yugo-Slavia. Metropolitan church 

 Petrovna, famous in Serbian history 



Olga Novikoff, 

 Russian writer 



Hoppt 



Rashka, a tributary of the Ibar.it is 

 about 130 m. S.W. of Belgrade, and 

 is strategically important as a road 

 junction. It frequently figured in 

 Serbian history in the Middle 

 Ages. Under the Turks it was 

 fortified, and the chief town of the 

 sanjak of Novi Pazar, part of the 

 vilayet of Koasovo. After the 

 treaty of Berlin, 1878, the sanjak 

 was garrisoned by Austrian troops, 

 and held until 1908, when Austria 

 annexed Bosnia- Herzegovina, but 

 retired from the sanjak. During 

 the first Balkan War the town and 

 sanjak were occupied by the 

 Serbo-Montenegrins, and as the 

 result of these two wars the 

 sanjak was divided between Serbia 

 and Montenegro in 1913. During 

 the Great War. Novi Pazar was 

 taken and the 

 sanjak overrun by ] 

 the Austrians in ; 

 Oct. -Nov., 1915 ; 

 the Serbs regained 

 the lost ground 

 in Oct., 1918. Pop. 

 13.500. 



No vo caine. 

 Local anaesthetic. 

 A para- amino- 

 benzoyldiethyl- 

 amino-ethenol hy- 

 drochloride it is 

 made in several 

 British chemical 

 m anuf actories, 

 although before 



1914 it was exclusively a German 

 product. Novocaine is used in 

 surgery hi a similar manner to 

 cocaine, being employed in the 

 form of a one p.c. solution as a 

 local anaesthetic, particularly in 

 tooth extraction. See Anaesthetics. 

 Novo-Georgievsk. Town of S. 

 Russia. It is in the govt. of Kher- 

 son, on the Tasmin, 20 m. W. of 

 Kremenchug. Soap, leather, can- 

 dles, and tallow are made, and 

 there is a trade in timber and cat- 

 tle. The town was formerly 

 known as Krylov and then as 

 Alexandriya ; it has borne its 

 present name for about a century. 

 Pop. 11,000. 



Novo - Georg- 

 ievsk OR MODLIN. 

 Fortress of Poland, 

 j also known as 

 | Novy Dwor. It 

 is in the govt., 

 and 50 m. S.E., of 

 Plock. Its im- 

 portance is due to 

 its position 10 m. 

 N.W. of Warsaw 

 at the confluence 

 of the Vistula and 

 the Bug on the 

 Kovel-Mlava rly. 

 The fortress was 

 constructed by 

 Napoleon in 1807. 



Novo-Georgievsk, CAPTURE OF. 

 German success in the Great War, 

 Aug., 1915. In their attack on the 

 line of the Nareff in August, 1915, 

 the Germans, under Gallwitz, 

 forced a passage across the Bug 

 on August 7 a short distance 

 above Novo-Georgievsk, and sur- 

 rounded the fortress within the 

 next two days. The garrison made 

 a stubborn defence with the object 

 of holding up the Germans in that 

 area and depriving them as long as 

 possible of the rly. communica- 

 tions. The Germans, however, 

 brought up powerful siege artil- 

 lery, and the fortifications were 

 battered down in ten days, the 

 fortress falling on August. 19. See 

 Nareff, Battle of the. 



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Novo-Georgievsk, Poland. Southern gateway of the 

 fortress built by Napoleon in 1807 



