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Stavropol is a city located in south-western Russia and is the administrative center of Stavropol Krai. Population: 355,900 (2005 est); History: Stavropol was founded in 1777 following the Russo-Turkish War of 1768–1774 as a military encampment and designated as a city in 1785. Prince Grigory Potemkin, who founded Stavropol as one of ten fortresses built between Azov and Mozdok at the request of Catherine II of Russia, played a leading role in the creation of the city. Don Cossacks, particularly those from the Khopersky regiment, settled the area in and around the cities of Stavropol and Georgievsk with a mission to defend borders of the Empire. The name "Stavropol" is a Russian rendition of a fictitious Greek name, Stauropolis (historically the name of an unrelated archbishopric in Caria, a Roman province in present Anatolia), meaning "The city of the Cross". According to a legend soldiers found a huge cross made out of stone when they were building the fortress in the future city ... Read more about Stavropol' on Wikipedia

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