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Ochakov

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

Ochakov , city, Ukraine, on the Dnieper-Buh estuary and on the Black Sea. It is the center of an agricultural district and a seaport with fishing industries. In the 7th and 6th cent. BC, there were several Greek colonies in the area, and Ochakov is on the site of the ancient Greek city of Alektor. In 1492 a Crimean khan built a fortress called Kara-Kermen there. When the Turks took control of it, they renamed it Ochakov. In the 16th and 17th cent., the Ukrainian Cossacks attacked the Turks at Ochakov. The city fell to the Russians (1788) during the Russo-Turkish War from 1787 to 1792. In the ... Read more

Olbia
The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ... colony of Miletus, founded at the beginning of the 6th cent. BC It is on the right bank of the Buh River between Mykolayiv and Ochakov, S central Ukraine. The leading Milesian colony and later a republic, its economy centered around handicrafts and trade. Its ... Read more

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	Russian Ships In Black Sea On Red Alert Chicago Sun-Times; 4/15/1994; Liam McDowall; 312 words ; ... planned to seize the Russian-controlled naval bases at Izmail, Ochakov and Nikolayev and had even chosen new commanders. "Our ships ... Kasatonov, a former commander of the Black Sea Fleet, said at a news conference in St. Petersburg. Russia and Ukraine have jointly ... Read more
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	Russian-Ukrainian tension increases in the Black Sea The Boston Globe; 4/15/1994; Associated Press; 177 words ; ... deputy commander of the Russian navy, alleged that Ukraine planned to seize the Russian-controlled naval bases at Izmail, Ochakov and Nikolayev and had chosen new commanders. Ships there have also been put on combat alert," Kasatonov, a former commander ... Read more
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	Ukrainian orphans get chance at adoption. Fresno Bee (Fresno, CA); 4/5/2007; 463 words ; ... leave their country -- or even the orphanage in the city of Ochakov that houses 286 children. The host families agree to take care ... Fresno Bee, Calif. Distributed by McClatchy-Tribune Business News. For reprints, email tmsreprints@permissionsgroup.com, call ... Read more
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	Admakers, Brewers Issue Pledge, THE MOSCOW TIMES The Moscow Times (Russia); 7/30/2004; Maria Levitov; 376 words ; ... they said. "We are also part of society ... and will promote civilized behavior," said Alexei Kochetov, president of brewer Ochakov. But in a reference to the ban, he added, "Bureaucrats who make the wrong decisions should be strung up by their private parts ... Read more
	Unlikely tales of fake tiaras and steel fleas: believe them if you want to fictional flea: believe it if you want to The Independent - London; 4/14/1996; Neal Ascherson; 787 words ; ... his extraordinary talent as a goldsmith. In Odessa, he got to know two brothers called Hochmann, who ran a grain business at Ochakov, near the site of Olbia, but who also made money by commissioning fake Greek and Scythian relics from Odessa jewellers. Ruchomovsky ... Read more
	(book reviews) Journal of European Studies; 3/1/1995; Dukes, Paul; 691 words ; ... the next two chapters take us to the banks of the Danube and the shores of the Pacific: inter alia, there is analysis of the Ochakov and Nootka Sound crises. Then, Anglo-French relations take centre stage again in four acts leading up to the coming of war ... Read more
	Anton awaits an ocean away.(The Home Forum) The Christian Science Monitor; 10/31/2001; 787 words ; ... place as any for a new relationship to start. I sit here on the carpeted floor of this immaculate orphanage in the village of Ochakov. Anton sits not three feet away from me, running his hand over the ball I bought for him at the outdoor market. If I do not ... Read more