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Kiow
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Proper noun
en Kyiv.
en 1706 Samuel von Pufendorf Samuel Puffendorf [Jodocus Crull] An Introduction to the History of the Principal Kingdoms and States of Europe 6th London Tho. Newborough and Dan. Midwinter qExiAAAAcAAJ 359 Kiow Before this time the Coſacks were only a wild and barbarous ſort of Rabble, who were gathered out of the Poliſh Ruſſia, and having ſettled themſelves in the Iſland of the River Boryſthenes beneath Kiow, lived upon Robbing and Plunder.