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Moscow


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Moscow

Place Type
political
Description
First noted as village 1147; grew around 13th-cen. Kremlin; sacked and rebuilt several times; expanded culturally and economically under Peter the Great in 17th cen., Catherine the Great in 18th cen. and Soviet government in 20th cen.; bombed during WW II.
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