Isker

The city of Sibir, which has given its name to the whole of North Asia, was so called only by the Russians, its native name being Isker.

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This caused the Tatar khan to transfer his capital from Tyumen to the Tobol River, where he built the city of Isker or Sibir.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913

On October 27th Iermak, already illustrious for history, after returning thanks to heaven, made his triumphant entry into the town of Isker, or

The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 10 John [Editor] Rudd 1885

He penetrated as far as the shore of Chische, where the deserts begin; imposed tributes on this new conquest, and returned to take to Isker the spoils which were to be his last trophies.

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Then, having removed the bodies of his companions-in-arms, he buried them, with military honors, on the cope of Sauskan, near Isker, in the old cemetery of the Khans.

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As Iermak already had his spies in the distant sections of Isker, he learned that Kutchum, struck with the reverses of

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Mahmetkul prisoner, and led him in triumph to Isker.

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Iermak, leaving a part of his troop at Isker, embarked with the other part on the Irtysh, which he descended, navigating toward the north.

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John Koltzo had arrived at Isker, charged with the bounties of the Czar, followed by Prince Bolkovsky with his warriors.

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He at once gathered all his subjects, made his nephew Mahmetkul enter the campaign at the head of a large force of cavalry, and he himself threw up fortifications on the bank of the Irtisch, at the foot of the Tchuvache mountain, thus closing to the Cossacks the road to Isker.

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