Rovno - XXIX-20

 

 

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Ровное  Rivne [Ukr], Rovnoye [Rus], Rovne [Yid], Rovna, Rovnoje

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Brockhaus-Efron Jewish Encyclopedia  Rivne (Równe) - in the era of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, a city in the Volyn Voivodeship,

Lutsk Povet. Jews settled in R., apparently, as early as the 16th century.

Nowadays it is a district town of Volyn province. According to the salary books of 1801, Christian merchants - 1; Jewish merchants - 10; 

Christ townspeople - 5; Jewish burghers - 2,137. According to the revision of 1847, there were the following “Jewish societies” in the district:

Rivne, consisting of 3,788 souls; Stepanskoye - 1,717; Mezhirichskoe - 1,808; Klevanskoe - 1,187; Berezinskoye - 1,283; 

Dombrovitskoye - 1,910; Tuchinskoye - 1,180; Alexandriyskoe - 728; Derazhninskoye - 352; Goringrodskoe - 316; Lyudvipolskoe - 286; 

Kostopolskoye - 153; Vysotskoe - 320; Tomashgrodskoe - 69. According to the 1897 census, there are 273 thousand inhabitants in the

district, among them 44 thousand Jews; including 24,573 inhabitants in R., among whom were 13,780 Jews. More....

   

Здолбунов  Zdolbunov [Rus, Yid], Zdołbunów [Pol], Zdolbuniv [Ukr], Zdolbunuv, Zdolbunovo, Zdolbunyiv, Sdolbuniw  

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Клевань  Klevan' [Rus, Ukr], Klewań [Pol], Klevan [Yid], Klevany [Hun]  

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Brokhaus-Efron Jewish Encyclopedia  Klevan - in the era of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, a city in the Volyn Voivodeship, Lutsk

Povet. Jews are mentioned in a document of 1563. In 1766, there were 973 Jewish poll tax payers, including Jews from the parishes

subordinate to the Klevan kahal. 

Nowadays (1910) it is a town in the Rivne district of the Volyn province. According to the revision of 1847 the Klevan Jewish community 

consisted of 1,187 souls. According to the 1897 census, the population in K. was 3,739, of which 2,432 were Jews.